Settlement of Jamestown
May 14,1607
Tobacco is introduced to
Jamestown
1612
Proclamation Line of 1763
October 7, 1763
Stamp Act
November 1, 1765
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773
Fighting erupts at
Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
Declaration of
Independence
July 4, 1776
Washington crosses the
Delaware
December 25, 1776
Battle of Saratoga
October 7, 1777
Winter at Valley Forge
December, 1777
Battle of Yorktown
October 19, 1781
Treaty of Paris 1783
September 3, 1783
Shays’ Rebellion
January, 1787
Constitutional Convention
May 25, 1787
Constitution is adopted
September 17, 1787
George Washington
becomes the 1st President
April 30, 1789
Samuel Slater installs first
mill in America
1793
Cotton Gin is invented by Eli
Whitney
March 14, 1797
Jefferson is elected as the
3rd President
February 17, 1801
Louisiana Purchase
April 30, 1803
Corps of Discovery returns
after journey
September 23, 1806
War of 1812 begins
June 18, 1812
Missouri Compromise
January 26, 1820
Nat Turner Rebellion
August 21, 1831
Telegraph is invented
January 6, 1835
Battle of the Alamo ends
March 6, 1836
Oregon Trail begins
1843
Texas becomes a state
December 29, 1845
Mexican American War
begins
April 25, 1846
Gold discovered in
California
January 24, 1848
California becomes a state
September 9, 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
May 30, 1854
John Brown raid at Harpers
Ferry
October 16, 1859
Lincoln becomes the
President
th
16
March 4, 1861
Shots fired at Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run
July 21, 1861
Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation
September 22, 1862
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1, 1863
Confederate surrender at
Appomattox Courthouse
April 12, 1865
Lincoln is assassinated
April 14, 1865