American+History+Chronology

=American History Chronology=

Here is a brief overview of some key major events that helped form our society and government in American history.
1491 -- __Jacques Cartier__ was born 1492 -- Christopher Columbus found the new world. 1497 --1499 - Vasco da Gama found a route from Portugal to the East. 1521 -- Hernando Cortes claimed Montezuma for Spain 1565 -- Henry Hudson was born 1590 -- Squanto is born 1607 – Jamestown Colony is founded. 1609 -- Henry Hudson found the Hudson River. 1611 -- Henry Hudson died 1620 -- Massachusetts Colony is founded. 1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth and sign the Mayflower Compact. 1623 -- New Hampshire Colony is founded. 1624 -- Virginia is founded 1634 -- Maryland Colony is founded. 1636 -- Rhode Island Colony is founded. 1636 -- Connecticut Colony is founded. 1649 – [|Maryland Toleration Act] is passed 1660 – English Parliament passes Navigation Acts 1663 -- [|Barbodas] was made into a British crown possession 1664 -- New York Colony was founded. 1664 -- New Jersey Colony is founded. 1682 -- Pennslyvania Colony is founded. 1729 -- The royal colony of South Carolina is founded 1732 -- [|George Washington] was born -- Georga was founed 1744 -- Abigail Adams was born 1752 – Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity and invents the lightning rod 1754 – French and Indian War begins 1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War 1764 – Parliament passes Sugar Act 1765 – [|Stamp Act] is passed 1765 -- "[|Sons of Liberty]" was formed 1767 – Townshend Acts are passed 1767 -- Spain and Confederation of the U.S. 1770 -- Boston Massacre 1773 – Colonists carry out the Boston Tea Party 1774 – Parliament passes Intolerable Acts 1774 – First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia 1775 – George Washington is named Commander in Chief of American army 1776 – Declaration of Independence is signed 1776 -- Patriots captured at Fort Ticonderoga 1777 – British are defeated at Saratoga 1778 -- The XYZ Affair 1781 – Articles of Confederation are adopted 1783 – Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War 1786 -- 1787 - Shay's Rebellion 1787 -- Delegates declared the constitution complete 1788 – U.S. Constitution is adopted 1788 -- Sacajewea is born 1789 - 1797 – George Washington is elected first President under the new Constitution 1791 – Bill of Rights is added to the Constitution 1791 – First two political parties are formed 1791 -- Whiskey Tax 1794 -- Jay Treaty was signed 1796 -- John Adams is elected president 1796 -- Treaty of Tripoli signed 1798 -- The Federalists passed a laws called Alien and Sedition Acts 1799 -- George Washington died 1800 -- Nat Turner is born 1800 -- Thomas Jefferson is elected president 1801 -- Beginning of Latin American Revolution 1803 – Louisiana Purchase is made 1804 -- 12th Amendment is added to the Constitution after the tie in the election of 1800 1809 – U.S. bans importation of salves 1809 -- James Madison is elected president 1812 -- War of 1812, a.k.a. the Second War for Independence, begins 1814 -- The treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the War of 1812 1818 -- Frederick Douglas is born 1828 -- Andrew Jackson is elected president 1820 -- Harriet Tubman was born 1830 -- Jacksons Indian Policy 1832 -- Andrew Jackson is reelected president 1845 -- The Society in the north had over 4 million Immigrants from Ireland and Germany swarming America 1847 -- Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom 1849 -- Elizabeth Blackwell gets her degree as being a doctor 1850 -- September of 1850, Millard Filmore passes Compromise of 1850 as law 1854 -- May of 1854, Kansas - Nebraska Act is passed as a law 1856 -- Dred Scott Case 1857 -- Supreme Court made a decision allowing white people to not respect the rights of slavery. 1860 -- Election of 1860 1861 -- Fort Sumter Attack (beginning of the Civil War) 1861-1865 -- Civil War 1862 -- Emancipation of Proclamation 1865 -- 1877 -- Reconstruction after the Civil War 1865 -- Assassination of President Lincoln 1866 -- 1868-- Red Cloud's War 1867 -- Chinese work for Central Pacific Railroads 1867 - Wilbur wright born 1870 -- African American are given the right to vote 1871 - Orville Wright born 1872- Amnesty Act is passed 1876-- Battle of Little Bighorn (June 5) 1890 -- The Great Immigration from around the globe 1890 -- World War I 1994 -- Confusion among the Central Powers 1901-1909- President Theodore Roosevelt time in office 1903- Mary Anderson invented the windshield 1911 - Ronald Reagan is born 1912 - Wilbur Wright dies 1917 -U.S. becomes a world power 1924 -- Jimmy Carter is born 1929 -- Beginning of the Great Depression 1930's- Dust Bowl 1932 -- President Roosevelt was elected 1939 -- 1945 -- World War II 1941 --Highest point of the Great Depression 1946 -- Chinese Civil War resumed 1946 - George W. Bush was born 1948 - Orville Wright dies 1950 -- 1953 -- Korean War 1954 -- [|Brown vs. Board of Education] 1957 -- The Little Rock Nine: Integrating Central High 1957 -- Joseph Gayetty created toilet paper 1959-1975 -- The Vietnam War 1968 -- [|Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr] was assassinated by James Earl Ray 1972 - 1974 -- The Watergate scandal is in progress with President Nixon. 2001 -- 9/11 attack on Twin Towers, Pentagon, and an unsuccessful attack on White House that ended with the "Let's Roll" plan. 2001 -- America invaded Afghanistan 2002 -- America invaded Iraq 2004 -- World War II Memorial opens with the "Freedom Wall"
 * March 3, 1820- The Missouri Compromise
 * 1831- The Trail of Tears
 * April 12, 1861- Firing on Fort Sumter
 * July 21, 1861- Battle of Bull Run 1st Manassas
 * August 30, 1861- Battle of Bull Run 2nd Manassas
 * September 16-18, 1862
 * July 1-3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
 * General Sherman's March
 * April 8-9, 1865 Battle of Apommattox
 * January 1865 - 13th amendment passed
 * March 1865 - Freedmen's Bureau started
 * 1865-1868 Black Codes passed
 * 1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded
 * 1866 - 14th amendment passed
 * September 1, 1939 - Britain declares general mobilization
 * Jim Crow Laws abolished
 * //Brown vs. Board of Education 2// -The Supreme Court ruled the they would desegregate "with all deliberate speed"
 * January 2, 1963 - Battle of Ap Bac
 * August 2, 1964 - The USS Maddox was struck with a torpedo in the Gulf of Tonkin