Most Important Dates in American History
1750-1877
|
Date |
Event |
|
1750 |
French in the Ohio Valley |
|
1754-1763 |
French and Indian War |
|
1763 |
Treaty of Paris |
|
1763 |
Proclamation of 1763 |
|
1763 |
Pontiac’s War |
|
1764 |
Sugar Act |
|
1765 |
Stamp Act |
|
1767 |
Townsend Acts |
|
1767 |
Daniel Boone explores Kentucky |
|
1770 |
Boston Massacre |
|
1773 |
Tea Act |
|
1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
|
1774 |
Intolerable Acts |
|
1774 |
First Continental Congress |
|
1775 |
Lexington and Concord |
|
1775 |
Battle of Bunker Hill |
|
1775 |
American victory at Ticonderoga |
|
1775 |
Failed attack on Canada |
|
1776 |
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense |
|
1776 |
Declaration of Independence |
|
1776 |
British capture New York |
|
1777 |
Articles of Confederation |
|
1777 |
Battles of Trenton and Princeton |
|
1777 |
French aid to Americans |
|
1777-1778 |
Winter at Valley Forge |
|
1781 |
Battle of Yorktown |
|
1783 |
Treaty of Paris |
|
1785 |
Land Ordinance of 1785 |
|
1786 |
Shays’ Rebellion |
|
1787 |
Land Ordinance of 1787 |
|
1787 |
Constitutional Convention |
|
1787 |
Great Compromise |
|
1787 |
Three-fifths Compromise |
|
1787 |
Constitution signed |
|
1788 |
Federalist Papers |
|
1789 |
Bill of Rights |
|
1789 |
Washington’s Inauguration |
|
1789 |
French Revolution |
|
1790 |
Washington DC made the capital |
|
1793-1794 |
French king and queen guillotined |
|
1794 |
Whiskey Rebellion |
|
1795 |
Jay’s Treaty |
|
1796 |
Washington’s Farewell Address |
|
1798 |
XYZ Affair |
|
1798 |
Alien and Sedition Acts |
|
1801 |
Jefferson becomes president |
|
1803 |
Louisiana Purchase |
|
1803 |
Marbury v. Madison |
|
1803 |
War against Barbary pirates |
|
1804-1806 |
Lewis and Clark Expedition |
|
1807 |
Embargo Act |
|
1809 |
Non-intercourse Act |
|
1811 |
Battle of Tippecanoe |
|
1812-1814 |
War of 1812 |
|
1813 |
Battle of Lake Erie |
|
1814 |
British burn Washington |
|
1814 |
Treaty of Ghent |
|
1815 |
Battle of New Orleans |
|
1815 |
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo |
|
1819 |
McCullough v. Maryland |
|
1820 |
Missouri Compromise |
|
1823 |
Monroe Doctrine |
|
1824 |
Gibbon v. Utah |
|
1825 |
Erie Canal |
|
1828 |
Andrew Jackson becomes president |
|
1828 |
Tariff of Abominations passed |
|
1830 |
Indian Removal Act |
|
1835-1842 |
Seminole War |
|
1838 |
Trail of Tears |
|
1836 |
Alamo |
|
1836 |
Battle of San Jacinto |
|
1836-1845 |
Texas Republic |
|
1846-1848 |
Mexican-American War |
|
1850 |
Fugitive Slave Law |
|
1852 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
|
1856 |
Bleeding Kansas |
|
1861 |
Lincoln becomes president |
|
1861 |
Fort Sumpter fired upon |
|
1861-1865 |
Civil War |
|
1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation |
|
1863 |
Battle of Vicksburg |
|
1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg |
|
1863 |
Gettysburg Address |
|
1865 |
Lee surrenders at Appomattox |
|
1865 |
13th Amendment |
|
1867 |
President Johnson impeached |
|
1869 |
Transcontinental railroad |
|
1869 |
14th Amendment |
|
1877 |
Radical Reconstruction ends |