Colonial and Revolutionary Era Chronology

Vocabulary practice flashcards defining key chronological events, battles, settlements, acts, and rebellions from the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras.

St. Augustine

1565 (oldest one)

Onate

1598

Acoma Massacre

1599

Jamestown

1607

Santa Fe

1610

Plymouth

1620

New Netherland (Dutch founding)

1624

MD founded

1632

Pequot war

1637 (1637c.)

English take New Netherland

1664

King Phillip's war

1675

Bacon's Rebellion

1676

Pueblo revolt

1680

PA colony founded

1681

Germantown Protest

1688

Glorious Revolution

1689

Coode's Rebellion

1689

French colony of Louisiana

1698

GA colony founded

1732

Stono Rebellion

1739

Mary Draper Ingles escape from Shawnee

1755

7 Years' War/ French and Indian War

1756

Treaty of Paris

1763

Pontiac's rebellion

1763

Proclamation Line

1763

The Paxton Boys

1763

The Black Boys

1765

Stamp Act; quartering act

1765

Repeal of stamp act; Declaratory Act

1766

Boston Massacre

1770

Phyllis Wheatley's poems published

1773

Boston Tea Party

1773

Gaspee Commission

1773

Coercive Acts

1774

1st Continental Congress

1774

Battle of Bunker Hill

1775

Battle of Lexington and Concord

1775

Common Sense

1776

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Saratoga

1777

Articles of Confederation

1777

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Los Angeles founded

1781

Battle of Blue Licks

1782

NW Indian War

1785

Shay's Rebellion

1786

Federalist Papers

1788

Equiano publishes his slave narrative

1789

US Constitution

1789

Whiskey Rebellion

1791

Invention of cotton gin

1793

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798

VA/KY Resolutions

1798

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Lewis and Clark Expedition

1804

War of 1812

1811

Battle of Detroit

1812

White House Burned

1814

Treaty of Ghent

1814

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

JQ Adams/ Corrupt Bargain

1824

Indian Removal Act passes

1830