U.S.

  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    U.S.

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacques Cartier explorses Great Lakes

  • Captain John Smith founds Jamestown

  • Henry Hudson explores nottheastern North America

  • treaty of Paris signed after French and Indian War

  • Colonists declare their independence

  • Louisiana purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Organ treaty signed

  • Civil War begins

  • Civil War ends

  • Alaska is purchased

  • gold is discovered in Yukon's Klondike

  • U.S. enters WW1

  • great depression begins in U.S.

  • Japan atacks Peal Habor, U.S. enters WW2

  • U.S. drops an atomic bomb

  • Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

  • U.S. signs a Free Trade agreement with Canada

  • Persian Gulf War

  • NAFTA is signed by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico

  • Occupation of Iraq by U.S.