Timeline of the history of the United States

This article provides an overview of the history of the United States in a concise timeline.


 * For 1600
 * about 17,000 BC. (?): Draw to America Indians
 * 1497: John Cabot goes in search of a Western route to India
 * 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano explores the coast of Florida to Nova Scotia
 * 17th century
 * first permanent English settlement in 1607: Virginia
 * 1609-1610: Colony in Virginia is almost wiped out by food shortage
 * 1618: a Dutch merchant ship brings the first 20 black slaves to Virginia
 * 1620: the Mayflower's Landing, establishment of the Plymouth Colony
 * 1624: establishment of New-Netherlands
 * 1637: The Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies by a bloody war break the power of the Pequot (the Pequot war).
 * 1664: British conquer Nieuw Amsterdam
 * 1692: Salem witch trials
 * 18th century
 * Boston massacre 1770:
 * 1773: Boston Tea Party is the first resistance against the English King George III
 * 1775: war of independence
 * 1776: Declaration of independence
 * 1783: Treaty of Paris, British accept independence VS.
 * 1789: u.s. Constitution is adopted
 * 19th century
 * 1803: Louisiana Purchase, the us buy Louisiana by France
 * 1812-1815: war of 1812 against Great Britain
 * 1846-1848: the us win the Mexican-American war
 * 1861-1865: the Union wins the American civil war
 * 1865: assassination of president Lincoln
 * 1865: constitutional amendment ending slavery
 * 1890: Wounded Knee massacre
 * 1898: the US colonial power after victory in the Spanish-American war
 * 20th century
 * 1917: the US mixing in the first world war
 * 1929: stock market crash leads to great depression
 * 1941: attack on Pearl Harbor, the us are involved in the Second World War
 * 1945: atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II
 * 1950-1953: Korea war
 * 1954: The CIA organizes a coup in Guatemala against the democratically elected president Arbenz, United Fruit Company 's interests secure
 * 1961-1974: Viet Nam war
 * 1962: Cuban missile crisis
 * 1963: assassination of president Kennedy
 * 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964: racial segregation was abolished
 * 1968: Martin Luther King murder
 * 1969: Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon.
 * 1970: Kent State massacre
 * 1974: Watergate leads to resignation president Nixon
 * 1986: Iran-Contra affair brings secret American armament of Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras to light
 * 1990-1991: Gulf war; Also end cold war
 * 21st century
 * 2001: terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
 * 2001: Second fight against terrorism
 * 2001: attack on Afghanistan
 * 2003: war against Iraq