US history

June 4: Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

1688 The Glorious Revoluton in England leads to a consttutonal monarchy and passing

• of the Bill of Rights

1763 February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east

• of the Mississippi River added to the Britsh empire.

October 7: The Proclamaton of 1763 issued by King George III afer the end of the

French and Indian War / Seven Years' War to organize the new North American

empire and stabilize relatons with Natve Americans. No Britsh setlements

allowed west of the Appalachian mountains. Setlers already in these areas

required to return east

1764 February: James Ots urges a united response to the recent acts imposed by

• England. The phrase "Taxaton without Representaton is Tyranny" is usually

atributed to James Ots

July: James Ots publishes "The Rights of the Britsh Colonies Asserted and

Proved"

August: Boston merchants begin a boycot of Britsh luxury goods

1765 March 22: The Stamp Act was passed by the Britsh Parliament. March 24: The

• Quartering Act required American colonists to house Britsh troops and supply

them with food.

July: The Sons of Liberty is formed - a secret organizaton opposed to the Stamp

Act

December: Over 200 Boston merchants refuse to pay the Stamp Tax

1766 1766 March 18. Stamp Act repealed

• January: New York assembly refuses to fully enforce the Quartering Act.

August: Violence breaks out in New York between Britsh soldiers and members of

the Sons of Liberty.

1768 July: Merchants in Boston and New York boycot Britsh goods

• September: English warships sail into Boston Harbor leaving two regiments of

English troops to keep order.

1770 March: "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by Britsh troops in Boston

• 1773 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusets patriots dressed as Mohawk

• Indians protest against the Britsh Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston

Harbor.

1774 March: The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans)

• 1775 February 9: English Parliament declares Massachusets to be in a state of rebellion

• April 19 Shots fred at Lexington and Concord where weapons depot destroyed.

"Minute Men" force Britsh troops back to Boston. George Washington takes

command of the Contnental Army.

June 15: George Washington appointed general and commander-in-chief of the

new Contnental Army.

June 17: Batle of Bunker Hill

July 6: Declaraton on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms statng that

Americans are "resolved to die free men rather than live as slaves."

The American Revoluton, the American War of Independence, led by George

Washington was fought between Great Britain and thirteen Britsh colonies in

North America, and ended in a global war between several European great

powers.

1776 May 2: The American revoluton gains support from King Louis XVI of France

• 1776 July 4. Thomas Jeferson presents the United States Declaraton of

Independence

1778 February 6: France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States and the

• American Revoluton soon becomes a world war.

September 14: Benjamin Franklin appointed American representatve in France.

1781 October 17: American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the Britsh

• surrender.

October 19: The Britsh army surrenders at Yorktown - a devastatng efect on the

Britsh

1782 February 27: English Parliament votes against further war in America.

• November 10: The fnal batle of the Revolutonary War when Americans retaliate

by atacking a Shawnee village in Ohio

November 30: Preliminary peace treaty signed in Paris recognising American

independence and the Britsh withdrawal from America.

1783 February 4: England ofcially declares an end to hostlites in America

• September 3: The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain

1784 January 14: The Treaty of Paris is ratfed by Congress and the American

• Revolutonary War ofcially ends

1789 First President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797

• The frst thirteen states were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia,

Connectcut, Massachusets, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia,

New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island

1791 Bill of Rights ratfed

• 1793 Fugitve Slave Act passed

• 1797 Second President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801

• 1801 Third President of the US is Thomas Jeferson 1801-1809

• 1807 Act Prohibitng Importaton of Slaves

• 1808 U.S. slave trade with Africa ends

• 1812 War of 1812 begins

• 1817 Harvard Law School founded

• 1830 Indian Removal Act

• Oregon Trail opens

1832 Black Hawk War

• Seminole War begins

Department of Indian Afairs established

1838 1838-1839: The Trail of Tears

• 1846 Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848

• 1848 Seneca Falls Conventon

• 1856 Sack of Lawrence, Kansas

• Potawatomie Massacre

1860 Pony Express begins

• 1861 Sixteenth President of the US is Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

• Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) established under President

Jeferson Davis

American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter.

1863 Batle of Getysburg

• 1864 Sand Creek Massacre

• 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated

• United States Civil War ends

1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Ku Klux Klan founded

1871 Great Chicago Fire

• 1874 Red River Wars

• 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875

• 1876 Batle of the Litle Bighorn

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restricton Act

• 1898 Spanish-American War

• 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China

• 1901 Twenty - Sixth President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

• 1903 Ford Motor Company formed

• 1912 Titanic sinks

• 1913 Twenty - Eighth President of the US is Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

• 1914 WW1

• 1917 US enters WW1

• 1919 Treaty of Versailles

• 1924 Indian Reorganizaton Act

• 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes frst trans-Atlantc fight

• 1929 Immigraton Act

• Great Depression begins

1933 Thirty - Second President of the US is Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

• 1939 WW2

• 1941 Atack on Pearl Harbor

• U.S. enters World War II

1944 D-Day

• 1945 Thirty - Third President of the US is Harry S. Truman 1945-1953

• U.S. joins the United Natons

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Germany and Japan surrender, ending World War II

1946 The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union / Atomic

• Energy Act

1948 Nuremberg trials

• Berlin Blockade

1949 NATO formed

• Germany divided into East and West

1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-

• 1954)

Korean War begins

1953 Thirty - Fourth President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

• Armistce in Korea

1955 Warsaw Pact

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