APUSH Must Know Dates

Christopher Columbus lands in Hispaniola

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

Establishment of the Encomienda System

1512

Fall of Aztec Empire

1519-1521

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is published by Bartolome De Las Casas

1552

Tobacco arrives in Europe from Americas

1555

Jamestown is settled (1st permanent English colony)

1607

First slave arrives in 13 Colonies (Virginia)

1619

Settlement of Plymouth and Mayflower Compact

1620

Navigation Acts

1660’s

King Philip’s War (aka Metacom’s War)

1675

Pueblo Revolt

1680

Salem Witch Trials

1692

First Great Awakening

1730’s-1740’s

Stono (Hutchinson’s) Rebellion

1739

Start of the French and Indian (aka Seven Years War)

1754

End of French and Indian War and Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

1774

Battle of Lexington and Concord

1775

Common Sense and Declaration of Independence

1776

End of the Revolution and Articles of Confederation Ratified

1781

Shay’s Rebellion

1786

Constitutional Convention and Northwest Ordinance

1787

US Constitution officially begins being used

1789

Washington’s Farewell Address

1796

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1800

Louisiana Purchase and Marbury vs. Madison

1803

Election of James Madison

1808

James Monroe Presidency and “Era of Good Feelings”

1816-1824

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Election of John Quincy Adams and the “Corrupt Bargain”

1824

Opening of the Erie Canal

1825

Andrew Jackson elected president

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator

1831

Nullification Crisis

1832

Election of James K. Polk

1844

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is published

1845

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Mexican Cession and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850