APUSH Dates to Know

Currently from 1491-1877

Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean

1492

Sinking of the Spanish Armada

1588

Founding of Jamestown

1607

Founding of Harvard University

1636

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

1st Great Awakening

1734-1760

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina

1739

Albany Plan

1754

French and Indian War

1754-1763

Stamp Act

1765

Townshend Acts

1767

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Intolerable Acts

1774

“Shots Heard Around the World”

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Wealth of Nations Published

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781-1787

Treaty of Paris

1783

Land Ordinance

1785

Shay’s Rebellion

1786-7

Northwest Ordinance

1787

Constitution Ratified

1788

Bill of Rights Ratified

1791

Cotton Gin Invented

1793

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury vs. Madison

1803

Embargo Act

1807

Outlaw of International Slave Trade

1808

Treaty of Ghent

1814

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Establishment of the American Colonialization Society

1817

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Corrupt Bargain

1824

Hudson River School of Painting

1824

Garrison’s The Liberator

1831

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1831

South Carolina Nullification Crisis

1832-3

Lowell Mill Girls Protest

1834

Margaret Fuller edits The Dial

1840

Mexican-American War

1846-8

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

California Gold Rush

1849

Compromise (California Admitted)

1850

Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t I A Woman”

1851

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Decision

1857

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

1859

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1860

Civil War

1861-5

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

13th Amendment

1865

15th Amendment

1870

Rockefeller storms Standard Oil

1870

WCTU Founded

1874

Compromise (President Hayes Elected)

1877