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HIS 103 Timeline 1
US History Timeline 30,000BC-1769
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 30,000-20,000 | Indians enter North America |
| 2,000-1500 | Agriculture in North America |
| 1001 | Vikings in Vinland |
| 1492 | Voyage of Columbus |
| 1497 | Cabot explores North America |
| 1517 | Martin Luther's protest sparks reform in Germany |
| 1519-1521 | Cortes defeats the Aztecs |
| 1540 | Coronado explores southwest for Spain |
| 1607 | Jamestown (Virginia) founded |
| 1613 | New York founded |
| 1616-1618 | Plague destroys Native population |
| 1619 | First Blacks in America First House of Burgesses established |
| 1623-1664 | Colonies established (NH, MA, MD, RI, DE, NC, SC, NJ) |
| 1636 | Harvard Established |
| 1660-1673 | Navigation Acts passed by Britain |
| 1675 | King Phillip's War |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1681 | Pennsylvania established |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials |
| 1711 | White Pines Act |
| 1718 | Transportation Act |
| 1732 | Hat and Felt Act |
| 1733 | Georgia founded |
| 1750 | Iron Act |
| 1754 | Albany Congress convened by colonists French and Indian War begins |
| 1760 | George III becomes King of Great Britain |
| 1763 | End of the French and Indian War Proclamation Line established |
| 1769 | California Missions |