1430
Portuguese start voyages down the west coast of Africa
1492
Columbus arrives in Western Hemisphere
1509-1547
Henry VII rules England
Protestant reformation begins in England
1558-1603
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Ireland conquered by England.
1607
Jamestown founded
1612
Tobacco made a profitable crop by John Rolfe
1619
First group of blacks brought to Virginia
First legislative assembly meets in Virginia
1620
First Pilgrims in Plymouth
1622
Indian attacks in Virginia end hopes of becoming a bi-racial society
1629
Great Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay
1636
Harvard founded
1676
Bacon's Rebellion
1686
Creation of Dominion of New England
1688
Glorious Revolution in England
1700
250,000 settlers in English colonies
1704
First colonial newspaper
1720s
Colonial economic life quickens
1739-1744
Great Awakening
1756-1763
French and Indian War
1763
Proclamation Line established
1763-1764
Pontiac's Rebellion
1764-1765
Sugar Act and Stamp Act Controversies
1766
Declaratory Act
1767
Townshend Act, New York Assembly suspended
1770
Boston Massacre
1772
Committees of Correspondence formed
1773
Boston Tea Party
1774
Coercive Acts, First Continental Congress convenes
1775
Revolution begins with fighting at Lexington and Concord
1776
Declaration of Independence
1777
British defeated at Saratoga
1778
French join the war against the British
1781
Battle of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation ratified
1783
Peace signed in Paris
1784-1787
Northwest Ordinance of 1784, 1785, and 1787
1786
Annapolis Convention
1787
Shays' Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
1788
Federalist Papers written
Constitution ratified
1789
George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States
French Revolution begins
1790
Capital placed on the Potomac River
1793
Citizen Genet
1794
Whiskey Rebellion
Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers
1795
Jay Treaty, Pinckney Treaty
1798