APUSH Dates to Know

Currently from 1491-1981

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

A Century of Dishonor published

1881

Tuskgee Institute founded

1881

American Federation of Labor

1886

Haymarket Square

1886

Dawes Severalty Act

1887

Hull House founded

1889

Influence of Sea Power upon History

1890

Homestead Strike

1892

Pullman Strike

1894

Washington’s Atlanta Compromise

1895

Plessy vs. Ferguson

1896

Spanish-American War

1898

Open Door Notes

1899; 1900

Roosevelt Corollary

1904

Panama Canal

1904-1914

The Jungle Published

1906

NAACP Founded

1910

Federal Reserve Act

1913

WWI

1914-1918

NY Birth Control League

1916

Zimmerman Note

1917

Treaty of Versailles

1919

18th Ammendment

1919

19th Ammendment

1920

Teapot Dome Scandal

1923

Scopes “Monkey” Trial

1925

Stock Market Crash

1929

Hawly Smoot Tariff

1930

Bonus Army dispersed from D.C.

1932

FDR “Hundred Days” Congress

1933

CIO Founded

1935

Neutrality Acts

1935-1937

WWII Begins in Europe

1939

Lend-Lease Act

1941

Pearl Harbor

Dec. 7, 1941

D-Day

Jun. 6, 1944

Yalta Conference

1945

Hiroshima + Nagasaki Attacks

1945

Marshall Plan

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947