History
Timeline
THE HISTORY OF
The United States
1565
First permanent European settlement in North America ____________________________________________________________________________↓
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1607
Jamestown, Virginia, founded by English settlers, who begin growing tobacco.
1620
Plymouth Colony is founded by the Pilgrim Fathers. _______________________________________________________________________↓
↓ _______________________________________________________________________________________________17th-18th centuries
Hundreds of thousands of Africans brought over and sold into slavery to work
1763 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
Britain gains control of territory up to the Mississippi river following victory over France in Seven Years' War.
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1775
American Revolution: George Washington leads Continental Army to fight against British rule.
1776 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress; colonies declare independence.
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1783
Britain accepts loss of colonies by virtue of Treaty of Paris..
1860 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln elected president.
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1865
Confederates defeated; slavery abolished under Thirteenth Amendment. Lincoln is assassinated..
1917 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
US intervenes in World War I, but rejects membership of League of Nations in its aftermath.
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1920
Women given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1945 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
US drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders.
↓ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1963
President John F Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon Johnson becomes president.
1968 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________↓
Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King assassinated.
1995
Oklahoma bomb by far-right activists kills more than 160 people in worst ever incident of its kind in US.
