History Timeline By Hwebber 1492 The discovery of America 1607 The settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian war 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 The battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1793 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The alien and sedition acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1812 The war of 1812 1820 The Missouri compramise 1828 Andrew Jackson election 1837 The invention of the telegraph 1837 The panic of 1837 1838 The trail of tears 1846 The Mexican-American war 1850 The compromise of 1850 1856 13th Ammendment 1861 The firing on fort Sumter 1863 The emancipation proclamation 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln assasination 1868 14th ammendment 1868 Andrew Johnson Impeachment 1870 15th ammendment 1876 Invention of tellephone 1879 Invention of light 1882 The organization of standard oil trust 1892 Homestead strike 1894 Pullman strike 1898 The spanish-american war 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 Invention of airplane