Sunday, June 20, 2021

Basic timeline of the United States


This post is a basic timeline of the United States. There are 71 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • First humans (30,000 years ago)
  • Clovis culture (15,000 - 13,000 BC)
  • Folsom culture (8,500 - 4,000 BC)
  • Oshara tradition (5,440 BC - 460 AD)
  • Adena culture (800 BC - 100 AD)
  • Mississippian culture (800 BC - 1,600 AD)
  • Osage culture (700 BC - now)
  • Hohokam culture (300 BC - 1,500 AD)
  • Polynesians settle in Hawaiian islands (1st century AD)
  • Norse settlements (1000 AD)
  • Iroquois confederacy (1142 - 1867)
  • Christopher Columbus and Spain arrive (1492)
  • Omaha culture (1,600 - now)
  • New France (1534-1763)
  • Dutch East India Company (1602-1799)
  • Thirteen British Colonies (1607-1776)
  • First African slaves (1619)
  • Pilgrims and Mayflower arrive (1620)
  • New Netherlands (1621-1674)
  • Jamestown massacre (1622)
  • Pequot War (1636-1638)
  • New Sweden (1638-1655)
  • Stamp Act (1765)
  • King Philip's War (1675-1678)
  • First Great Awakening (1730-1755)
  • Boston Tea Party (1773)
  • First Continental Congress (1774)
  • Second Continental Congress (1775-1781)
  • Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • Cherokee-American Wars (1776-1794)
  • Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
  • Northwest Indian War (1785-1795)
  • Constitutions written (1787)
  • Bill of Rights written (1789-1791)
  • Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794)
  • Second Great Awakening (1790-1840)
  • Democratic-Republican Party (1792-1834)
  • Louisiana Purchase (1803)
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806)
  • War of 1812 (1812-1815)
  • Democratic Party founded (1828)
  • Indian Removal Act (1830)
  • Whig Party (1833-1856)
  • Texas annexed (1845)
  • Oregon Treaty of 1846
  • Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
  • California Gold Rush (1848-1855)
  • Republican Party founded (1854)
  • Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
  • Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
  • Abolition of slavery (1865)
  • Spanish-American War (1898)
  • Federal Reserve created (1913)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Woman's suffrage (1920)
  • Wall Street Crash (1929)
  • Great Depression (1929-1938)
  • New Deal programs (1933-1939)
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
  • World War II (1941-1945)
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks (1945)
  • Cold War (1947-1991)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
  • Vietnam War (1955-1975)
  • Gulf War (1991)
  • September 11 attacks (2001)
  • Iraq War (2003-2011)
  • Hurricane Katrina (2005)
  • Financial crisis (2007-2008)
  • Capitol insurrection (2021)