America Timeline By spino 1492 BCE Christpher Colombus finds America 1492 BCE Columbus sailed to the western hemisphere 1453 BCE Ottoman Empire takes Constantinople. Period: 1095 BCE to 1291 BCE The crusades. A series of wars over Jerusalem and to stop Turkish expansion Period: 500 BCE to 1000 BCE The Dark Ages 1638 Anne Hutcheson banished 1688 King Willams war 1754 French and Indian war 1765 Stamp act 1770 Bosten massacre 1773 Bosten tea party 1775 Lexington and concord 1776 Declaration of independence 1787 U.S. constitution