APUSH Dates

Locking

Jamestown

1607

Plymouth

1620

MA Bay

1630

NY

1664

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Great Awakening

1730s-1740s

French and Indian War

1754-1761

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775

Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

Battle of Yorktown

October 19, 1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Shays’ Rebellion

1786

Constitutional Convention

1787

GW becomes first president

1789

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Washington’s Farewell Address

1797

VA and Kentucky Resolutions

1798

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury v. Madison

1803

War of 1812

1812-1815

Adams-Onis Treaty

1819

Corrupt Bargain (JQA becomes president via House of Reps.)

1824

Completion of Erie Canal

1825

Nullification Crisis

1832

Texas Revolution

1836

William Henry Harrison dies

1841

Mexican War

1846-1848

CA Gold Rush

1849

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott decisions

1857

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

1859

SC secedes from Union

1860

SC fires on Fort Sumter

April 12, 1861

Battle of Gettysburg

July 1-3, 1863

Gettysburg Address

November 19, 1863

Lee surrenders to Grant

April 9, 1865

15th Amendment

1870

Great Railroad Strike

1877

Haymarket Affair

1886

Homestead Strike

1892

Spanish American War

1898

Teddy Roosevelt becomes president

1901

Great White Fleet sails around the world

1908

Titanic sinks // Fenway park opens

1912

U.S. enters WWI

1917

Boston Police Strike

1919

Warren G. Harding dies

1923

Scopes Trial

1925

Charles Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic

1927

Stock Market crashes

1929

FDR becomes president

1933

Social Security

1935

FDR’s “court packing” bill fails

1937

Pearl Harbor

1941

D-Day

June 6, 1944

VE Day

May 8, 1945

VJ Day

August 14, 1945

Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in MLB

1947

Korean War

1950-53

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat

1955

Little Rock 9

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

Aug. 28, 1963

JFK assassinated

Nov. 22, 1963

Voting Rights Act

1965

Tet Offensive

1968

MLK Jr. assassinated

April 4, 1968

Neil Armstrong walked on moon

1969

Nixon visits China and Soviet Union

1972

Paris Peace Accords

1973

Nixon resigns due to Watergate

Aug. 9, 1974

Camp David Accords

1978

Iran Hostage Crisis begins

1979

Sandra Day O’Conner becomes first female SC justice

1981

Iran Contra Scandal

1987

Persian Gulf War

1991

NAFTA

1993

Oklahoma City bombing

1995

Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial

1999

Bush v. Gore decision

2000

Terrorists attack WTC and Pentagon

Sept. 11, 2001

Invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)

Oct., 2001

Dept. of Homeland Security created

2002

Invasion of Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

2003

Hurricane Katrina

2005

“Surge” in Iraqi War

2007

Global Financial Crisis begins

2008

Obama inaugurated

2009

Tea Party protests begin

2009

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

2010

Bin Laden killed

May, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Movement

2011

BLM movement

2015

Trump elected

2016

Greatest comeback in Super Bowl history

2017