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AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, 1587-1862
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| 1587-1590 |
Raleigh's Roanoke Colony established, fails |
| 1603 |
Elizabeth I dies;
James I to English throne |
| 1607 |
Jamestown Colony founded |
| 1609 |
William Bradford migrates to Leyden, Holland, with the group
of Scrooby, England, Separatists |
| 1619 |
First African slaves brought to Jamestown |
| 1620 |
Plymouth Colony founded |
| 1624 |
Dutch settlers establish colony on Manhattan Island |
| 1625 |
Charles I crowned |
| 1630 |
Massachusetts Bay Colony founded |
| 1630-1647 |
William Bradford writes History Of Plimouth Plantation |
| 1636 |
Connecticut colony founded |
| 1637 |
Pequot War;
Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts |
| 1640 |
The Bay Psalm Book published in first of many editions |
| 1642-1646 |
English Civil War |
| 1649 |
Charles I executed;
Cromwell and Roundheads to power |
| 1650 |
Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America published in England |
| 1660 |
Charles II restored to English throne |
| 1662 |
Michael Wigglesworth's The Day of Doom published |
| 1664 |
English conquer New Netherland, declare New York colony;
New Jersey chartered |
| 1675-1676 |
King Philip's (Metacomet's) War;
Mary Rowlandson taken captive and ransomed |
| 1678 |
Anne Bradstreet's Several Poems posthumously published |
| 1681 |
Pennsylvania chartered |
| 1682 |
Mary Rowlandson's Sovereignty and Goodness of God published |
| 1692 |
Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts |
| 1708 |
Ebeneezer Cooke's The Sot-Weed Factor |
| 1711-1715 |
Tuscorora and Yemasee Wars in North and South Carolina |
| 1732 |
Georgia chartered |
| 1730s + |
The Great Awakening;
German immigration to Pennsylvania |
| 1739-1748 |
King George's War |
| 1754-1760 |
French & Indian Wars |
| 1757 |
Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth |
| 1760 |
George III crowned |
| 1765 |
Stamp Act Controversy;
Sons of Liberty formed |
| 1770 |
Boston Massacre |
| 1771 |
Franklin writes first part of his Autobiography |
| 1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
| 1775 |
Battles at Lexington and Concord, April 19th |
| 1776 |
Declaration of Independence;
Thomas Paine's Common Sense |
| 1781 |
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown;
Articles of Confederation |
| 1783 |
Treaty of Paris;
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer |
| 1786-1787 |
Shays' Rebellion |
| 1788 |
Constitution ratified |
| 1789 |
Washington inaugurated |
| 1790 |
Official Census fixes U.S. population at 3.9 million;
Benjamin Franklin dies at age 84 |
| 1796 |
John Adams elected President |
| 1798 |
Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland published |
| 1800 |
Thomas Jefferson elected President;
U.S. population at 5.4 million |
| 1803 |
Jefferson signs Louisiana Purchase agreements |
| 1804-1806 |
Lewis & Clark Expedition to Astoria, Oregon |
| 1808 |
James Madison elected President |
| 1812-1815 |
War of 1812 |
| 1816 |
James Monroe elected President;
2nd Bank of U.S. |
| 1819-1823 |
Financial crisis and depression |
| 1820 |
Missouri Compromise;
U.S. population at 9.6 million;
Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. published |
| 1824 |
Monroe's "Indian Removal" plan;
John Quincy Adams elected President |
| 1825 |
Erie Canal completed |
| 1826 |
Temperance Society founded |
| 1827 |
James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie published |
| 1828 |
Andrew Jackson elected President |
| 1830 |
Baltimore & Ohio RR begins service |
| 1836 |
Martin Van Buren elected President;
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature published |
| 1837 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales published |
| 1837-1843 |
Financial panic and depression |
| 1840 |
Benjamin Harrison elected President;
U.S. population at 17 million;
Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque published |
| 1841 |
Brook Farm community established |
| 1844 |
James K. Polk elected President |
| 1845 |
Thoreau moves to Walden Pond, July 4th;
Frederick Douglass publishes his autobiographical Narrative |
| 1846 |
Mexican War |
| 1847 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays, First and Second Series, published |
| 1848 |
Abortive revolution in Germany;
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York;
Zachary Taylor elected President |
| 1849 |
California Gold Rush and Statehood;
Poe dies at age 40 |
| 1850 |
Compromise of 1850 saves Union;
Fugitive Slave Act;
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter published |
| 1851 |
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or The Whale published |
| 1852 |
Franklin Pierce elected President;
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published |
| 1854 |
Republican Party formed, absorbing most former "Know Nothing" and Free-Soil party members;
Kansas-Nebraska Act;
Thoreau's Walden published |
| 1855 |
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass published on July 4th |
| 1856 |
James Buchanon elected President |
| 1857 |
Dred Scott case |
| 1859 |
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| 1860 |
Lincoln elected President;
U.S population at 31.4 million |
| 1860-1861 |
Secession and Civil War |
| 1844 |
Second defeat of Northern forces at Bull Run, in August;
The Union in crisis, dangerously close to defeat |
