APUSH Timeline > 1000 - 1800

1000 Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in north eastern North America
1100 Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East to 1300
1100 Height of Mississippian settlement at Cahokia
1295 Marco Polo returns to Europe
1400 Spain becomes united, late
1488 Diaz rounds southern tip of Africa
1492 Columbus lands in Bahamas
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
1498 Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America for England
1498 Da Gama reaches India
1500 Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois legend, late
1513 Balboa claims all lands touched by Pacific Ocean for Spain
1513 Ponce de Leon explores Florida
1517 Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
1519 Cortez conquers Mexico for Spain to 1521
1521 Ponce de Leon explores Florida again
1522 Magellan's vessel completes circumnavigation of the world
1524 Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France
1532 Pizarro crushes Incas
1534 Cartier journeys up St. Lawrence River
1536 John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion outlining Calvinism
1539 De Soto explores the Southeast and discovers the Mississippi River to 1542
1542 Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain
1558 Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
1565 English crushed Irish uprising
1565 Spain builds fortress at St. Augustine
1577 Drake circumnavigates the globe
1585 Raleigh founds Roanoke colony
1588 English defeats Spanish Armada
1598 Edict of Nantes
1598 Spanish under Onate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande Valley to 1609
1603 James I becomes king of England
1604 Spain and England sign peace treaty
1607 Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
1608 Champlain colonizes Quebec for France
1609 Spanish founded New Mexico
1612 Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
1614 First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
1619 First Africans arrive in Jamestown
1619 Virginia House of Burgesses established
1620 Pilgrims sail on Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
1624 Dutch found New Netherland
1624 Virginia becomes a royal colony
1629 Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans
1630 Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay Colony
1634 Maryland colony founded
1635 Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded to 1638
1635 Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island colony to 1636
1636 Harvard College founded
1637 Pequot War
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony
1639 Connecticut's Fundamental Orders drafted
1640 Large scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies
1642 English Civil War to 1648
1643 Louis XIV becomes king of France
1643 New England Confederation formed
1644 Second Anglo-Powhatan War
1649 Act of Toleration in Maryland
1649 Charles I beheaded; Cromwell rules England
1650 First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce
1655 East and West Jersey colonies founded
1655 England seizes New Netherland from Dutch
1660 Charles II restored to English throne
1661 Barbados slave code adopted
1662 Half-way Covenant for Congregational Church membership established
1670 Carolina colony created
1670 Virginia disfranchises landless freeman
1675 King Philip's War to 1676
1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
1680 French expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle
1680 Mass expansion of slavery in colonies
1680 Pope's Rebellion in New Mexico
1681 William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony
1682 La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
1686 Royal authority creates Dominion of New England
1688 Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England to 1689
1689 King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg) to 1697
1689 Leisler's Rebellion in New York to 1691
1692 Salem witch trials in Massachusetts
1696 Board of Trade assumes governance of colonies
1698 Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended
1702 Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish Succession) to 1713
1711 Tuscarora War in North Carolina to 1713
1712 New York City slave revolt
1712 North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
1715 Yamasee War in South Carolina to 1716
1718 French found New Orleans
1721 Smallpox inoculation introduced
1732 First edition of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
1733 Georgia colony founded
1734 Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening
1734 Zenger free-press trial in New York to 1735
1738 George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening
1739 South Carolina slave revolt
1739 War of Jenkins' Ear
1744 King George's War (War of Austrian Succession) to 1748
1754 Albany Congress
1754 French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) to 1763
1754 Washington battles French on frontier
1755 Braddock's defeat
1757 Pitt emerges as leader of British government
1759 Battle of Quebec
1760 British vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures
1763 Peace of Paris
1763 Pontiac's uprising
1763 Proclamation of 1763
1764 Sugar Act
1765 Quartering Act
1765 Stamp Act
1765 Stamp Act Congress
1766 Declaratory Act
1767 New York legislature suspended by Parliament
1767 Townshend Acts passed
1768 British troops occupy Boston
1770 All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed
1770 Boston Massacre
1772 Committees of correspondence formed
1773 British East India Company granted tea monopoly
1773 Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke Boston Tea Party
1774 "Intolerable Acts"
1774 First Continental Congress
1774 First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade
1774 Quebec Act
1774 The Association boycotts British goods
1775 Americans capture British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord
1775 Failed invasion of Canada
1775 King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion
1775 Philadelphia Quakers found world's first antislavery society
1775 Second Continental Congress
1776 Battle of Trenton
1776 Declaration of Independence
1776 New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote
1776 Paine's Common Sense
1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Continental Congress
1777 Battle of Brandywine
1777 Battle of Germantown
1777 Battle of Saratoga
1778 Battle of Monmouth
1778 Clark's victories in the West to 1779
1778 Formation of French-American alliance
1780 Massachusetts adopts first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote
1781 Articles of Confederation put into effect
1781 Battle of Cowpens
1781 Battle of King's Mountain
1781 French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown
1781 Greene leads Carolina campaign
1782 North's ministry collapses in Britain
1783 Military officers forom Society of Cincinnati
1783 Treaty of Paris
1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1785 Land Ordinance
1786 Annapolis Convention
1786 Shays' Rebellion
1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787 Northwest Ordinance
1788 Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution
1789 Constitutional formally put into effect
1789 French Revolution begins
1789 Judiciary Act of 1789
1789 Washington elected president
1790 First official census
1791 Bank of the United States created
1791 Bill of Rights adoped
1791 Excise tax passed
1791 Vermont becomes fourteenth state
1792 Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties formed to 1793
1792 Washington re-elected president
1793 Citizen Genet affair
1793 France declares war on Britain and Spain
1793 Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of French Revolution
1793 Washington's Neutrality Proclamation
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers
1794 Jay's Treaty with Britain
1794 Whiskey Rebellion
1795 Pinckney's Treaty with Spain
1795 Treaty of Greenville: Indian cede Ohio
1796 Washington's Farewell Address
1797 Adams becomes president
1797 XYZ Affair
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
1798 Undeclared war with France to 1800
1798 Virginia and Kentucky resolutions to 1799
1800 Convention of 1800: peace with France