APUSH Timeline

By ACE918
  • 1492

    Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • 1492

    Spanish Reconquista completed

    Isabella Ferdinand captured Granada, the last Muslim stronghold
  • 1508

    Spanish establish Puerto Rico

    First permanent European colony
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 Theses

  • 1521

    Cortes defeats Aztec Empire

  • 1533

    Fall of the Incas - Francisco Pizzaro

  • Roanoke established

  • Spanish Armada

  • Jamestown Colony founded

  • First enslaved Africans in Virginia

    Already had Native American slaves, but first African slaves in USA was in Virginia

  • Mayflower Compact signed

    Plymouth founded earlier that year

  • 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars

    Suprise attack in Virginia

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony developed

  • Puritan-Pequot War

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    English Civil War

  • Rhode Island founded

    Only allowed to form b/c Parliament was so tolerant during English Civil War

  • Maryland Toleration Act

  • Navigation Act

  • Half-Way Covenant

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • Pueblo Revolt

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Start of French & Indian War

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    French & Indian War

  • End of French + Indian War, Proclamation Line also

  • Sugar and Currency Act

  • Stamp Act & Quartering Act

  • Townsend Duties

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable / Coercive Acts

    Closed Boston harbors as punishment for BTP

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

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    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris