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Christopher
Columbus lands in
the Bahamas
1492
Juan Ponce de León
lands in Florida
1513
Córtes conquers the
Aztecs
1521
Iroquois
Confederacy
established
1570
First permanent English
settlement in
Jamestown, Virginia
1607
Pilgrims land at
Plymouth,
Massachusetts
1620
First printing press in
English-speaking N.
America (Mass)
1639
Massachusetts
establishes free public
schools
1647
Salem Witch Trials
(20 executed)
1692
First coffee plants
cultivated (Brazil)
1727
Great Awakening
(religious revival)
sweeps colonies
1741
French and Indian
War Begins
1754
Parliament’s Tea
Act = Boston Tea
Party
1773
American
Revolution Begins
1775
Second Continental
Congress adopts
Declaration of
Independence
1776
George Washington
elected President of the
US
1789
Louisiana Purchase
extends America to
the Rockies
1803
Lewis and Clark
begin expedition
1804
US declares war on
Britain (War of
1812)
1812
“The Star-Spangled
Banner” by Francis
Scott Key
1814
Missouri
compromise bans
slavery in parts of
new territories
1820
US Army marches
Cherokees on Trail of
Tears
1838
Mexican War ends.
US expands borders
1848
Gold Rush in
California
1849
Women’s Rights
Convention: Seneca
Falls, NY
1848
Dred Scott decision: No
citizenship for People of
African decent
1857
Abraham Lincoln
elected president of the
United States
1860
Civil War begins
with firing at Fort
Sumter
1861
Emancipation
Proclamation
1863
13th amendment
outlaws slavery
1865
Lincoln
assassinated by
John Wilkes Booth
1865
The US buys Alaska
from Russia
1867
Baseball’s National
League is founded
1876
Thomas Edison
patents
phonograph
1877
Statue of Liberty
dedicated in New
York Harbor
1886
1st pro football game
played in Latrobe,
Pennsylvania
1895
San Francisco
earthquake kills at
least 3000
1906
Henry Ford builds
the first Model T
1908
World War 1 Begins
1914
Prohibition (1919)
repealed
1933
19th amendment
gives women right
to vote
1920
Immigration Act
limits no. of
immigrants
1924
Stock market crashes,
starting the Great
Depression
1929
Roosevelt closes
banks and Congress
passes New Deal
1933
Amelia Earhart
takes off from
Miami…
1937
Japanese bomb
Pearl Harbor
bringing US into
WWII
1941
World War I ends
1918
Atom bomb
dropped on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
1945
Japanese
internment camps
set up
1942
United Nations
Charter signed at
the end of WWII
1945
Harlem
Renaissance
1920s
The Cold War between
US and Soviet Union
begins
1947
North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
(NATO) is formed
1949
McCarthy trials
falsely accuse
thousands
1950
Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg
sentenced to death
for espionage
1951
Brown vs Board of
Education Topeka
KS
1954
Rosa Parks arrested
sparking
Montgomery Bus
Boycott
1955
MLK Jr gives “I Have
a Dream” speech
1963
President JFK is
assassinated
1963
73 million people watch
the Beatles on the Ed
Sullivan Show
1964
Thurgood Marshall
becomes first black
Supreme Court
justice
1967
Martin Luther King Jr.
assassinated in
Memphis
1968
Neil Armstrong is
the first person to
set foot on the
moon
1969
Richard Nixon
becomes president
of the US
1970
Vietnam War
1959-1975
Walt Disney World
opens in Florida
1971
Nixon resigns due
to Watergate
scandal
1974
Sandra Day O’Connor
becomes first woman
Supreme Court justice
1981
The space shuttle
Challenger
explodes 73 sec
after launch
1986
Congress passes the
Americans with
Disabilities Act to stop
discrimination
1990
Bill Clinton is
elected president of
the US
1992
A lamb is cloned
from a cell of an
adult sheep
1997
Hijacked planes crash
into the World Trade
Center Towers and the
Pentagon
2001
Hurricane Katrina
devastates the gulf
region
2005
Barack Obama becomes
first African American
president
2008
Meanwhile in the
rest of the world…
First known use of
papyrus.
Egypt, 3000BC
Alphabetic writing
emerges
Sinai and Middle
Egypt
1800 BC
Birth of Socrates
Greece, 469 BC
Julius Caesar
murdered
Rome, 44BC
Mohamed is born.
Mecca, 570
Mayan Empire
collapses
Mesoamerica, 900
First Crusade
Jerusalem, 1099
Magna Carta
England, 1215
Napoleon
Bonaparte declares
himself emperor
France, 1804
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Shelley creates
Frankenstein
England, 1818
Irish potato famine
Ireland, 1845
Karl Marx publishes
The Communist
Manifesto
Belgium, 1848
Pierre and Marie
Currie discover
radium and
polonium
France, 1898
Albert Einstein
proposes his
relativity theory
Germany, 1905
Bolsheviks seize
control of Russia
Russia, 1917
Treaty of Versailles
ends WWI
France, 1919
Mahatma Gandhi leads
march to the sea to
protest British salt tax
India, 1930
Hitler becomes
German Chancellor
Germany, 1933
German blitzkrieg
invasion sets off
WWII
Poland, 1939
UN establishes state
of Israel
Israel, 1948
North Korean
troops invade South
Korea starting
Korean war
Korea, 1950
First space satellite,
Sputnik 1 is
launched
USSR, 1957
Anti-Apartheid
leader Nelson
Mandela sentenced
to prison
South Africa, 1964
Mao Zedong
launches Cultural
Revolution
China, 1966
Long period of
Catholic-Protestant
violence begins.
N. Ireland, 1969
Margret Thatcher
becomes British Prime
Minister
1979
Pro-democracy
demonstrators
killed @ Tiananmen
Square
China, 1989
USSR is dissolved
into 15
independent
nations.
Eastern Europe,
1991
Hundreds of
thousands of ethnic
Tutsis are killed in
genocide.
Rwanda, 1994
Earthquake causes
a tsunami and
claims 186,000
lives.
Indonesia, 2004