USA History Timeline

By williamsburg
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    to 1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independance

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    From June 18th to Feb. 18,1815

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

  • Telegraph Invented

  • Panic of 1837

    Went to 1843

  • Trail of Tears

  • Mexican-American War

    Went to Feb. 2,1848

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Firing of Fort Sumter

    Went to April 13, 1861

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Battle of Appomattox

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • 14th Amendment

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 15th Amendment 1870

  • Telephone Invented

  • Electric Lights Invented

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Spanish-American War

    Went to August 13, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected

  • Airplane Invented