CH. 1-5 Vincent Gonzalez

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  • Jan 1, 1300

    Timbuktu becomes a center of Islamic learning.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Ch. 1-5 Vincent Gonzalez

    U.S. History Timeline
  • Jan 1, 1440

    Johann Gutenburg develops his printing press.

  • Oct 1, 1492

    Columbus first reaches North America.

  • Apr 5, 1521

    The Spanish destory the Aztec empire.

  • Aug 19, 1543

    The Reformation begins in England with the Act of Supremacy.

  • England defeats Spanish Armada.

  • Jamestown is founded.

  • "Pilgrims" settle in Plymouth.

  • English Civil War begins between royalist forces and parliamentary forces led by Oliver Cromwell.

  • William Penn founds Pennsylvania.

  • George III becomes king of Great Britain.

  • With the Treaty of Paris, Britain acquires a vast North American empire.

  • British Parliament passes the Stamp Act.

  • Colonists stage the Boston Tea Party.

  • Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts. First Continental Congress convenes.

  • Reign of Louis XVI begins in France.

  • Second Continental Congress convenes.

  • Colonies declare independance.

  • Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is published.

  • British surrender at Yorktown.

  • Joseph II allows religous toleration in Austria.

  • British preacher Edmund Cartwright invents the first power loom.

  • Daniel Shays leads a rebellion against higher taxes.

  • Sierra Leone in Africa is made a haven for freed American slaves.

  • The Constitution is ratified.

  • George Washington is elected president.

  • The French Revolution starts.

  • George Washington is reelected.

  • French king Louis XVI is executed.

  • Toussaint L'Ouverture defeats French forces sent to recaptures Saint Domingue.

  • Mexican War of Independance begins.

  • The Treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the War of 1812.

  • Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo.

  • Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

  • Mexico wins its independance from Spain.

  • William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator.

  • Great Britain abolishes slavery in the empire.

  • Texas establishes itself as a republis, with Sam Houston as its first president.

  • Victoria becomes Queen of England.

  • Native Americans are relocated in the Trail of Tears.

  • Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message.

  • The Great Potato Famine begins in Ireland.

  • The war with Mexico begins.

  • Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto is published.

  • Woman's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York.

  • The Grea Exhibition opens in London.

  • Franklin Pierce is elected president.

  • Charles Dickens's Hard Times is published.

  • James Buchanan is elected president.

  • The Supreme Court rules against Dred Scott.

  • South Carolina secedes.

  • Russian serfs emancipated by Czar Alexander II

  • The Confederacy is formed. Civil War begins.

  • Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

  • Maximilian of Austria becomes emperor of Mexico.

  • Lincoln is assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president.

  • Civil war ends.

  • Cubans revolt against Spain.

  • Ulysses S. Grant is elected president.

  • Suez Canal is opened.

  • Red Cloud, chief of the Ogala Siouxx, states his people's case in Washington, D.C.

  • Secret ballot is adopted in Britain.

  • Japan forces Korea to open ports to trade.

  • Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president.

  • Reconstrution ends.

  • James Garfield is elected president.

  • Garfield is assassinated. Chester Arthur becomes president.

  • French occupy Tunisia.

  • Grover Cleveland is elected president.

  • Oklahoma opened for settlement; the land rush begins.

  • Sioux are massacred at Wounded Knee.

  • Diminished U.S. gold reserve triggers the panic of 1893.

  • France takes over Indochina.

  • William McKinley is elected president.

  • William Jennings Bryan runs for president.

  • Boxer Rebellion takes place in China.