18,000BP | | New Sweden |
15,000BP? | | Breton,British, and Potuguese fishermen off the coast of ne. NA |
13-14,000BP | | unification of England and Scotland creates Great Britain |
13,000BP | | Puritan migration from East Anglia to MA |
13,000BP | | Declaration of Independence |
12,900BP | | first mission settlements in California |
10,000BP? | | Clovis points no longer manufactured. Folsom points, for buffalo hunting, manufactured |
9000BP? | | "Scotch-Irish" migration from England/Scotland border to PA and then to Applachain |
7000BP? | | Nadene speakers arrive in NA |
6000BP? | | Daniel Boone lays Wilderness road through Cumberland Gap |
5000BP | | Extinction of NA megafauna |
4000BP | | Columbus reaches bahamas, Cuba, and Hispanola |
3000BP | | invasion of a few Eurasian megafauna |
10th century AD | | De Soto expedition through the Southeast |
1100 | | Cavlier and servant migration from SSW England to VA |
15th century AD | | Boston Tea Party |
1492 | | Cahokia's ppulation peaks at about 25-43000 |
1492 | | War of Independence |
1501 | | first Paleo-Indians arrive in NA? |
1519 | | agriculture spreads to Mississippi Valley, or is independently invented there |
1519-22 | | Santa Fe founded |
1521 | | Quaker migration from n.Midlands to PA |
1538-43 | | Cortez conquers Mexico; smallpox decimates native population |
1540-42 | | agriculture spreads to Southwestern US |
1565 | | Peak of last Ice Age, Followed by warming |
1607 | | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting abolishes slavery first case of abolition in the Western world |
1609 | | Jamestown founded |
1621 | | Coronado expedition to Southwest, introduction of the horse to the great plains |
1624-64 | | founding of St. Augustine, the first permanent European colony in present US territory |
1629-40 | | Seven Years (French and Indian) War |
1638-55 | | Clovis point big game hunters arrive in NA |
1642-75 | | Yonker Dryas abrupt climate change episode |
1675-1725 | | first black slaves brought to New World (Hispanola) |
1680 | | Reconquista completed |
1707 | | brown rat reaches US |
1718-75 | | Viking colony in Newfoundland |
1749-54 | | James Watt invents steam engine, Official start of the Industrial Rvolution, in England |
1754-63 | | New Netherlands |
1758 | | first mounds of the "Moundbuilders" |
1765 | | bow and arrow reaches NA |
1769 | | Pilgrims come ashore in Massachusetts |
1774 | | Ponce de Leon tries to colonize Florida |
1775 | | arrival of Inuit (Eskimos) in NA |
1775-1781 | | Magellan expedition's voyage around the world |
1776 | | "Pennsylvania Dutch" migrate to PA |
1776 | | Pueblo revolt |
13,000 | | farming begin in Mexico |