Timeline
33,000 BC |
First Humans cross the Bering Straight from Asia to America |
1100 BC |
Mississippian Settlement at Cahokia, most popular until 1800 AD, passed by NY |
1492 |
Columbus lands in Bahamas |
1494 |
Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal |
1513 |
Ponce de Leon explores Florida for Spain |
1519 |
Cortes conquers Aztecs, claims Mexico for Spain |
1532 |
Pizarro defeats Incas |
1539 |
De Soto explores South East towards Mississippi River |
1565 |
Spanish Fort at St. Augustine |
late 1500's |
Iroquois League founded |
1598 |
Spanish conquer Pueblos |
1680 |
Popes Rebellion in New Mexico |
1565 |
English defeat Irish uprising |
1585 |
Sir Walter Raleigh founds colony at Roanoke |
1588 |
Spanish Armada defeated by English Sea Dogs |
1603 |
James I inherits throne |
1607 |
Jamestown Founded |
1612 |
Rolfe establishes tobacco in Jamestown |
1619 |
First Africans arrive in North America, House of Burgesses established |
1634 |
Maryland founded |
1661 |
Barbados Slave Code |
1670 |
Carolina Colony |
1733 |
Georgia Founded |
1620 |
Mayflower reaches Plymouth |
1624 |
Dutch found New Netherland |
1635 |
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island |
1637 |
Pequot War |
1639 |
Fundamental Orders in Connecticut |
1664 |
English seize New Netherland, call it New York |
1681 |
William Penn founded Pennsylvania Colony |
1689 |
Glorius Revolution in England |
1619 |
First slaves arrive in America |
1662 |
Half-way covenant founded |
1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
1692 |
Salem Witch Trials |
1732 |
First Entry, Poor Richards Almanac |
1734 |
Great Awakening |
1754-1763 |
French and Indian War |
1763 |
Pontiac's Rebellion, Treaty of Paris, Proclamation of 1763 |