This Time Line is duplicated at each state site. By clicking on a number, it links to what was going on
in
that state at that time. Thus it can give a picture of what was
happening across our nation at a particular time in our history.
First select a state, then click on the number of the event.
------------------------------------------Early--------------------------------------------------- 01 - 1000 Lief Ericsen and his Norsemen settled in Newfoundland 02 - 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on Watling Island in the Bahamas 03 - 1620 Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts 05 - 06 - Colonial wars with the French and Indians 07 - 08 - 09 - ------------------------------------------1700--------------------------------------------------- 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 1773 The Boston Tea Party 14 - 15 - 1776 The Declaration of Independence 16 - 1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the Declaration 17 - 1789 The French Revolution 18 - 19 - 1793 Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin ------------------------------------------1800--------------------------------------------------- 20 - 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 21 - 1807 Fulton's steamboat finally succeeded 22 - The War of 1812 23 - 1814 The Battle of New Orleans 24 - 1819 US purchased Florida from Spain 25 - 1834 1st Mechanical Reaper patented (US) 26 - 1838 The Trail of Tears - Transplanting the Native American Indians began A black spot on American History 27 - 1846 Elias Howe patented his sewing machine 28 - 1846 The war with Mexico 29 - 1848 Seneca Falls-1st Women's Rights Convention 30 - 1861 The War Between the States 31 - 1867 Seward's Folly - US bought Alaska from Russia 32 - 1869 1st Trans-Continental Railroad in US 33 - 1876 Telephone patented by Alexander Graham Bell 34 - 1898 The Spanish American War ------------------------------------------1900--------------------------------------------------- 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 - 1914 World War I 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 1939 World War II 46 - 1945 The atomic bomb 47 - 48 - 49 - ------------------------------------------2000--------------------------------------------------- 50 - Current events |
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