APUSH Timeline

33,000 - First humans crossed into Americas from 1558 Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
8000 B.C. Asia
5000 B.C. Corn is developed as a staple crop in 1565 Spanish built Fortress at St. Augustine
highland Mexico
4000 B.C. First civilized socities developed in the 1565 - 1590 English crush Irish uprising
middle east
1200 B.C Corn planting reaches present day 1577 Drake circumnavigates the globe
American Southwest
A.D. 1000 Corn Cultivation reaches Midwest ad 1585 Raleigh founds Roanoke colony
Southeastern Atlantic seaboard
Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle 1588 England defeats Spanish armada
in Northeastern North America
1100 Height of Mississippian settlement at late 1500's Iroquois confederacy founded, according to
Cahokia Iroquois legend
1100 - 1300 Christian crusades arouse European interst 1598 Edict of Nantes
in the East
1295 Marco Polo returns to Europe 1598 - 1609 Spanish under Onate conquer Pueblo
people of Rio Grande Valley
late 1400's Spain becomes united 1603 James I becomes king of England
1488 Diaz rounds southern tip of Africa 1604 Spain and England sign peace treaty
1492 Columbus lands in the Bahamas 1607 Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and 1608 Champlain colonizes Quebec for France
Portugal
1498 Cabot explores Northeastern coast of North 1609 Spanish found New Mexico
America for England
da Gama reaches India 1612 Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virgina
1513 Balboa claims all lands touched by the 1614 First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
Pacific Ocean for Spain
1513, 1521 Ponce de Leon explores Florida 1619 Virgina House of Burgess established
1517 Martin Luther begins Protestant First Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virgina
Reformation
1519 - 1521 Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain 1620 Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth
Bay
1522 Magellan's vessel completes 1624 Virginia become a Royal Colony
circumnavigation of the world
1524 Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of Dutch found New Netherland
North America for France
1532 Pizarro crushes Incas 1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and
persecutes Puritans
1534 Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence R. 1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1536 John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institues 1634 Maryland Colony Formed
of the Christian Religion
1539 - 1542 de Soto explores the SouthEast and 1635 - 1636 Roger Williams convicted of heresy and
discovers the Mississippi R. founds Rhode Island colony
1540 - 1542 Coronado explores present-day Southwest 1635 - 1638 Connecticut and New Haven colonies
founded
1542 Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain 1636 Harvard College founded

1637 Pequot War 1696 Board of Trade assumes goverance of

colonies
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from 1698 Royal African Company slave trade
Massachusetts colony monopoly ended
1639 Connecticut's Fundamental Orders drafted 1701 Yale college founded

1640's Large-scale slave-labor system established
in English West Indies
1642 - 1648 English Civil War
1643 New England Confederation formed
Louis XIV becomes king of France
1644 2nd Anglo-Powhatan War
1649 Act of Toleration in Maryland
Charles I beheaded; Cronwell rules england
1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish
Succession)
1711-1713 Tuscarora War in North Carolina
1712 North Carolina formerly from South
Carolina
New York City slave revolt
1715 - 1716 Yamasee War in South Carolina
1718 French found New Orleans
1721 Smallpox inoculation introduced

1650 First Navigation Laws to control colonial 1732 First edition of Franklin's Poor Richards
commerce Almanack
1655 New Netherland conquers New Sweden 1733 Georgia colony founded
1660 Charles II restored to England throne 1734 Johnathan Edwards begins Great
Awakening
1661 Barbados slave code adopted 1734 - 1735 Zenger free-press trial in New York
1662 Half-Way Covenant for Congregational 1738 George Whitefield spreads Great
church membership established Awakening
1664 England seizes New Netherland from Dutch 1739 South Carolina slavery revolt

East and West Jersey colonies founded War of Jenkin's Ear

1670 Carolina colony created 1744 - 1748 King Georges's War (War of Austrian
Succession)
Virginia assembly disfranchises landless 1746 Princeton College founded
freeman
1675 - 1676 King Phillip's War 1754 Washington battles French on frontier
Albany Congress
1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1680 Pope's rebellion in New Mexico 1755 Braddock's defeat

1680's Mass expansion of slavery in colonies 1757 Pitt emerges as leader of British
government
1681 William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony 1759 Battle of Quebec

1682 La Salle explores Mississippi R. to Gulf of 1760 Britain vetoes South Carolinas anti-slave
Mexico trade measures
1686 Royal authority creates Dominion of New 1763 Peace of Paris
England
1688 - 1689 Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Pontiac's uprising
Dominioin of New England
1689 - 1691 Leisler's Rebellion in New York Proclamation of 1763
1689 - 1697 King Williams's War (War of League of French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)
Augsburg) ends
1692 Salem witch trials in Massachusetts 1764 Sugar Act
1693 College of William and Mary founded Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia
Brown College founded
1765 Quartering Act 1778 Formation of French-American alliance
Stamp Act Battle of Mormouth
Stamp Act Congress 1778 - 1779 Clark's victories in the West
1766 Rutgers college founded 1780 Massachusetts adopts 1st constitution
drafted in convention and ratified by
popular vote
Declaratory Act 1781 Battle of King's Mountain
1767 Townshend Acts passed Battle of Cowpens
New York legislature suspended by Greene leads Carolina campaign
Parliament
1768 British troops occupy Boston French and Americas force Cornwallis to
surrender at Yorktown
1768 - 1771 Regulator protests Articles of Confederation put into effect
1769 Dartmouth college founded 1782 North's ministry collapses in Britain
1770 Boston Massacre 1783 Treaty of Paris
All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed Military officers form Society of the
Cincinnati
1772 Committees of correspondence formed 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1773 British East India Company granted tea 1785 Land Ordinance of 1785
monopoly
Boston Tea Party 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
1774 "Intolerable Acts" Shays's Rebellion
Quebec Act Meeting of 5 states to discuss revision of
the Articles of Confederation
First Continental Congress (called for 1787 Northwest Ordinance
abolition of slave trade)
The Association boycotts British goods Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1788 Ratification by 9 states guarantees a new
government under the Constitution
Second Continental Congress 1789 Constitution formerly put into effect
Americans capture British garrisons at Judiciary Act of 1789
Ticonderoga and Crown Point
Battle of Bunker hill Washington elected president
King George III formally proclaims colonies French Revolution begins
in rebellion
Failed invasion of Canada 1790 First official census
Philadelphia quakers founds world's first 1791 Bill of Rights adopted
antislavery society
1776 Paine's Common Sense Vermont becomes 14th state
Declaration of Independence Bank of the United States created
Battle of Trenton Excise tax passed
New Jersey constitution temporarily gives 1792 Washington reelected president
women the vote
1777 Battle of Brandywine 1792 - 1793 Federalist and Democratic-Republican
parties formed
Battle of Germantown 1793 Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of
French Revolution
 Battle of Saratoga French declares war on Britain and Spain

Articles of Confederation adopted by 2nd Washington's Neutrality Proclamation

Continental Congress
Citizen Genet affair
1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of Fallen Timbers 1812 United States declares war on Britain
Jay's Treaty with Britain Madison reelected president
1795 Treaty of Greenville; Indians cede Ohio 1812 - 1813 American invasions of Canada failed
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain 1813 Battle of the Thames
1796 Washington's Farewell Address Battle of Lake Erie
1797 Adams becomes president 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend
XYZ Affair Battle of Plattsburgh
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts British burn Washington
1798 - 1799 Kentucky and Virginia resolutions Treaty of Ghent signed
1798 - 1800 Undeclared war with France 1814 - 1815 Hartford Convention
1800 Convention of 1800; Peace with France 1815 Battle of New Orleans
Jefferson defeats Adams for Presidency North American Review begins publication

1801 Judiciary Act of 1801 1816 2nd Bank of the united States founded
1801 - 1805 Naval war with Tripoli Protectionist Tariff of 1816
1802 Revised naturalization law Monroe elected president
Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed 1817 Madison vetoes Calhoun's Bonus Bill
1803 Marbury v. Madison Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval
armament on Great Lakes
Louisiana Purchase 1818 Treaty of 1818 with Britain
1804 Jefferson reelected president Jackson invades Florida
Impeachment of Justice Chase 1819 Panic of 1819
1804 - 1806 Lewis and Clark expedition Spain cedes Florida to United States
1805 Peace treaty with Tripoli McCulloch v. Maryland case
1805 - 1807 Pike's explorations Dartmouth college v. Woodward case
1806 Burr treason trial 1820 Missouri compromise
1807 Chesapeake affair Missouri and Maine admitted to Union
Embargo Act Land Act of 1820
1808 Madison elected president Monroe reelected
1809 Non-Intercourse Act replaces Embargo Act 1821 Cohens v. Virginia case

1810 Macon's Bill no. 2 1823 Secretary Adams proposes Monrow

Doctrine
Napoleon announces (falsely) repeal of 1824 Russo-American Treaty of 1824
blockade decrees
Madison reestablished nonimportation Gibbons v. Ogden case
against Britian
Fletcher v. Peck ruling asserte rught of the 1825 Erie Canal completed
Supreme court to invalidate state laws
deemed unconstitutional