Chronology of America1607: Jamestown settled1619: Africans arrive1620: Pilgrims arrive1622: Powhatan confederacy attacks Virginia 1624: Virginia becomes royal colony1624: New Netherlands settled1629: Cambridge Agreement1630: Massachusetts Bay Colony founded 1634: Maryland granted to Baltimore 1636: Williams founds Providence1637: slaves arrive in Massachusetts 1637: Pequot War1639: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1630: Rhode Island formed1643: New England Confederation formed 1650-1660: Navigation Acts1652: Rhode Island passes anti-slavery law 1656: Quakers come to America1662: Half-Way Covenant1663: Carolina chartered1670: Charles Towne established1673: first post rider used1675-1676: King Philip's War1676: Bacon's Rebellion1679: New Hampshire chartered1681: Penn founds Pennsylvania1682: Penn founds Pennsylvania1682: La Salle claims Louisiana for French 1690: Salem Witch Trials1704: Boston News-Letter founded1730s: Great Awakening1732: first public stagecoach line1732: Hat Act1733: Molasses Act1733: Oglethorpe founds Georgia1750: Iron Act1754-1763: French and Indian War1763-1765: Pontiac's Rebellion1763: Royal Proclamation of 17631764: Sugar Act1764: Currency Act1765: Quartering Act1765: Stamp Act1766: Declaratory Act1767-1770: Townshend Acts1770: Boston Massacre1772: Committees of Correspondence established1773: Tea Act1773: Boston Tea Party1774: First Continental Congress1775: Boone blazes Wilderness Road1775: Second Continental Congress1775: Continental Army formed1775-1783: Revolutionary War1776: Declaration of Independence1785: Ordinance of 17851786: Shay's Rebellion1787: Northwest Ordinance1787: Constitutional Convention1788: Ratification of Constitution1793: invention of cotton gin1794: Whiskey Rebellion1797-1789: XYZ Affair1798: Alien and Sedition Acts1798: Nullification Doctrine1801-1805: Tripolitan War1803: Marbury v. Madison1803: Louisiana Purchase1804: Lewis and Clark expedition1805: shoemakers' strike1807: Embargo Act1812-1815: War of 18121817: first steamboat appears in St. Louis1817: Mississippi becomes 20th state1818: Illinois becomes 21st state1818: opening of National Road1819: Panic of 18191819: acquisition of Florida1819: Alabama becomes 22nd state1820: Missouri Compromise1820: Maine becomes 23rd state1821: Missouri becomes 24th state1823: Monroe Doctrine1825: completion of Erie Canal1826: Holbrook founds lyceum1829: election of Andrew Jackson1830: formation of Baltimore and 1830: Godey's Lady's Book founded 1831: Nat Turner's Rebellion1832: Tariff of 18321833: U.S. Temperance Society formed1834: McCormick patents reaper1835: Colt patents revolver1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary founded1836: Battle of the Alamo1836: Arkansas becomes 25th state1835-1842: Second Seminole War1837: Michigan becomes 26th state1837-1844: Panic of 18371843-1859: Oregon Trail migration1845: Texas becomes a state1846: Mormons found Salt Lake City1844: Morse demonstrates telegraph 1846: Smithsonian Institution founded 1846: Howe patents "sewing jenny"1846: Wilmot Proviso1846-1848: Mexican-American War1848-1850: California Gold Rush1846: Morton introduces ether1848: Seneca Falls convention1850: Compromise of 18501850-1860: railroad boom1850-1865: daguerreotype craze1853: Gadsden Purchase1854-1858: Kansas-Nebraska Act1857: Dred Scott decision1857: Panic of 18571859: John Brown's revolt1860: Pony Express runs1862: Homestead Act1862-1869: Transcontinental Railroad built1863: Emancipation Proclamation1864: Arlington Cemetery begun1865: Lincoln assassinated1865-1867: Sioux War1865: 13th Amendment abolishes slavery1866: 14th Amendment gives blacks right to vote and equal protection 1866: KKK founded1867: Reconstruction Act1868: President Johnson impeached1869: Transcontinental Railroad completed1872: Montgomery Ward opens1872-1874: Buffalo destruction1873: Panic of 18731875-1876: Sioux uprising1876: Custer's Last Stand1876: Bell patents telephone1877: Edison invents phonograph1877: Socialist Labor party formed1881: President Garfield assassinated1882: Chinese Exclusion Act1882: Edison's station supplies power to 85 customers in New York1883: Pendleton Act1884: first roller coaster opens1886: American Federal of Labor founded1887: Interstate Commerce Act1889:Edison forms Electric Light Company, later called GE1891: Populist convention1892: Homestead strike1893: Panic of 18931894: Pullman strike1900-1910: 9 million immigrate to U.S.1901: President McKinley assassinated1902: coal strike1903: Wrights invent airplane1903: Panama Canal built1903: first World Series1907: Panic of 19071908: FBI formed1909: Peary discovers North Pole1909: Model T car manufactured1912: New Mexico becomes 47th state1912: Arizona becomes 48th state1913: 16th Amendment creates income tax1913: international art exhibition in New York1913-1921: Wilson Administration1917:America enters World War I1918: Wilson's Fourteen Points1919-1920: "Red Scare"; Palmer raids1919: Chicago race riot1920: 19th Amendment (women's suffrage)1920: Radio broadcasting begins1922: Coolidge elected president1927:Lindbergh flies the Atlantic solo; first talking motion pictures1928:Kellogg-Briand Pact; Hoover elected president1929: Stock market crash1930s: Great Depression1932: Roosevelt elected president1932:Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic1935-1939: Roosevelt's New Deal plans1941: Pearl Harbor attack; U.S. enters World War II1945: Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president; Potsdam conference; atomic bombs dropped on Japan; World War II ends; United Nations established1947: Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan1949:NATO established1950s: postwar growth in American economy1954: McCarthy hearings1950-1953:Korean War1952: Eisenhower elected president1954:Brown v. Board of Education; first McDonald's hamburger stand opens1955: Montgomery bus boycott; Warsaw Pact signed1957:Postwar peak of US birthrate; Eisenhower Doctrine; Soviet Union launches Sputnik; Little Rock, Ark., school integration violence1958-1959: Berlin airlift1959:Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood1960:Sit-in movement for civil rights begins; Kennedy elected president1961: Bay of Pigs crisis1962:Cuban missile crisis1963:Civil Rights march in Washington, D.C.; President Kennedy assassinated; Johnsonbecomes president 1964:War on Poverty begins; Civil Rights Act1965-1968:Race riots; Vietnam War escalates1968: Martin Luther King Jr. and RobertKennedy assassinated; Nixon elected president1969:U.S. astronauts land on moon1970:Environmental Protection Agencycreated; Clean Air Act1971: Pentagon Papers published; 26th Amendment changes voting age to 181973:U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam War1973-1974: Watergate investigations1974:Nixon resigns; Ford becomes president1976: Carter elected president1980:Reagan elected president1983: Reagan announces SDI plan (Star Wars)1988:Bush elected president1989: Berlin Wall comes down1991: Persian Gulf War1992:Clinton elected president1995: Federal building bombed in Oklahoma City1998: Clinton impeached2001: World Trade Center and Pentagon attacked2003: U.S. invades Iraq。