1492- Christopher Columbus landed in Guanahani.
1607- John Smith founded the Jamestown Settlement.
1636- Harvard College was founded.
1692- Salem witch trials took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
1752- Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment took place.
1754- French and Indian War began
1765- To help pay for the cost of keeping British troops in America the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act.
1770- The Boston Massacre took place.
1773- The Sons of Liberty published Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York
1773- The Boston Tea Party took place.
1774- First Continental Congress met.
1775- Second Continental Congress met.
1775- Battles of Lexington and Concord.
1775- Battle of Bunker Hill took place.
1776- Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
1777- The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States.
1778- The Treaty of Alliance was signed with France.
1781-The British surrendered at Yorktown.
1783- The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War.
1786- Daniel Shay's Rebellion took place.
1787- A Constitutional convention took place in Philadelphia.
1789- The first United States presidential election took place.
1791- The United States Bill of Rights was ratified.
1792- Washington was reelected President. John Adams was chosen as Vice President.
1793- Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
1796- U.S. presidential election, 1796. Adams was elected President. Jefferson was elected Vice President.
1796- Washington's farewell address.
1798- The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed.
1800- The Library of Congress was founded.
1801- Jefferson was elected President y the House of Representatives.
1803- Louisiana Purchase was made.
1804- Burr and Hamilton dueled which lead to Hamilton's death.
1804- Lewis and Clark set out.
1808- The slave trade was ended.
1809- Madison was Inaugurated as President.
1812- War of 1812 began.
1817- Monroe was inaugurated as President.
1820- The Missouri Compromise was passed.
1823- The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed.
1825- John Quincy Adams was elected President.
1826- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
1828- Nullification Crisis: The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was published.
1828- Andrew Jackson was elected President.
1830- Second Great Awakening, a religious revival movement took place.
1830- The Oregon Trail came into use by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest.
1830- The Indian Removal Act was passed.
1832- Black Hawk War took place.
1836- Samuel Colt Invented the revolver.
1837- Panic of 1837 took place.
1841- John Tyler becomes President.
1845- James K. Polk became President.
1849- Zachary Taylor became President.
1850- Millard Fillmore became President.
1850- The compromise of 1850 was passed.
1857- James Buchanan became President.
1857- A decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States and could not sue.
1859- John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry.
1860- The Pony Express was founded.
1860- Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
1860- South Carolina seceded from the Union.
1861- Ten more stated seceded from the Union and established the Confederate States of America.
1861- American Civil War began at Fort Sumter.
1861- Battle of Bull Run took place.
1862- General Robert E. Lee was placed in command the Army of Northern Virginia.
1863: The Battle of Gettysburg
1864- General Ulysses S. Grant was put in command of all Union forces.
1864- Sherman's March to the Sea: The March took place.
1865- Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865- Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865- The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, permanently outlawing slavery.
1867- The Alaskan territory was purchased from Russia.
1868- Grant was elected President
1869- The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
1876- The National League of Baseball was founded.
1876- Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
1877- U.S. presidential election awards Rutherford B. Hayes the Presidency.
1879- Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
1881- Gunfight at the O.K corral took place in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
1881- Garfield was as assassinated.
1881- Clara Barton created the Red Cross.
1882- The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
1885- Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as President.
1886- Haymarket Riot took place.
1890- Wounded Knee Massacre occurred.
1892- The Homestead Strike took place.
1892- General Electric was founded.
1893- Cleveland was inaugurated President for a second term.
1897- William McKinley became President.
1897- The Boston Subway was completed.
1900- The United States Population exceeds seventy-five million.
1900- The Gold Standard Act was passed.
1901-Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
1903- The movie "The Great Train Robbery" opened.
1903- The Ford Motor Company was formed.
1903- The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer.
1906- The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed.
1906- San Francisco earthquake occurred.
1908- The Ford Model T appeared on the market.
1909- William Howard Taft became President.
1909- Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole.
1909- The NAACP was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois.
1911- The Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil.
1911- The First Indianapolis 500 occurred.
1912- The Titanic sank.
1912- Roosevelt was shot while campaigning for the Bull Moose Party.
1913- Woodrow Wilson became President.
1913- The Federal Reserve Act was passed.
1914- World War I Began
1914- Mother's Day was established as a national holiday.
1915- The Lusitania was sunk.
1917- The United States entered World War I.
1919- The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I.
1919- The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
1919- Black Sox scandal occurred.
1920- The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
1920- The first radio broardcasts were made, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Detroit, Michigan.
1920- The Volstead Act was passed.
1921- Warren Harding became President.
1923- Harding died and Calvin Coolidge succeeded him.
1927- Charles Lindbergh made the first trans-Atlantic flight.
1928- Disney's animated feature "Steamboat Willie," featuring Mickey Mouse, opened.
1928- Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1929- Herbert Hoover became President.
1929- St. Valentine's Day massacre took place.
1929- Wall Street crashed and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a record 68 points.
1931- The Empire State Building opened in New York City.
1932- The Bonus Army marched on Washington, D.C.
1933- Franklin Delano Roosevelt was worn in as President.
1933- Roosevelt introduced the New Deal, focusing the "3 Rs" of relief, recovery and reform.
1934- The Dust Bowl began.
1934- The FBI was established, with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director.
1937- The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in San Francisco.
1939- Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany.
1941- Attack on Pearl Harbor took place.
1942- Japanese American internment and seizure of property began per executive order 9066.
1944- Normandy landings took place.
1944- Battle of the Bulge took place.
1945- Battle of Okinawa took place.
1945- Roosevelt died and Harry S. Truman became President of the United States.
1945- Germany surrendered.
1945- Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945- The Nuremberg Trails began.