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Corn is developed as a staple crop in highland Mexico
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ca 5000
1
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First humans cross into Americas from Asia
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ca. 33,000-8,000 B.C.E.
2
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First civilized societies develop in the Middle East
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ca. 4000 B.C.E.
3
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Corn planting reached present day American Southwest
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ca. 1200 B.C.E.
4
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Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in. or theaters North America
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ca. 1000 c.e.
5
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Corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard
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ca. 1000 c.e.
6
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Height of Mississippian settlement at Cahokia
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ca. 1100 c. e.
7
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Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East
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ca. 1100-1300 c. e.
8
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Marco Polo returns to Europe
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1295
9
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Spain becomes united
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late 1400s
10
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Dias rounds southern tip of Africa
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1488
11
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Columbus lands in the Bahamas
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1492
12
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Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
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1494
13
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Da agama reaches India
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1498
14
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Cabot explore northeastern coast of North America for England
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1498
15
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Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain
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1513
16
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Ponce de León explores Florida
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1513, 1521
17
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Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain
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1519-1521
18
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Magellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world
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1522
19
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Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France
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1524
20
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Pizarro crushes Incas
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1532
21
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Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence River
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1534
22
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De Soto explores the Southeast and discovered the Mississippi River
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1539-1542
23
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Coronado explores present day Southwest
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1540-1542
24
Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain
1542
25
Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine
1565
26
Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to legend
late 1500s
27
Spanish under Oñate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley
ca. 1598-1609
28
Spanish found New Mexico
1609
29
Pope's rebellion in New Mexico
1680
30
French expedition down Mississippi River under LaSalle
1680s
31
Serra founds first California Mission, at San Diego
1769
32
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
1558
33
England crushes Irish uprising
ca. 1565-1590
34
Drake circumnavigates the globe
1577
35
Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island
1585
36
England defeats Spanish Armada
1588
37
James I becomes king of England
1603
38
Spain and England sign peace treaty
1604
39
Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
1607
40
Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
1612
41
First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
1614
42
First Africans arrive in Jamestown
1619
43
Virginia House of Burgesses established
1619
44
Virginia becomes royal colony
1624
45
Maryland colony founded
1634
46
Large scale slave labor system established in English West Indies
1640s
47
Second Anglo Powhatan war
1644
48
Act of Toleration in Maryland
1649
49
Charles 1 beheaded, Cromwell rules England
1649
50
Charles II restored to English throne
1660
51
Barbados slave code adopted
1661
52
Carolina colony created
1670
53
Tuscarora War in North Carolina
1711-1713
54
North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
1712
55
Yamasee War in South Carolina
1715-1716
56
Georgia colony founded
1733
57
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
1517
58
John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536
59
Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
1620
60
Dutch found New Neatherland
1624
61
Charles I dismisses parliament and persecutes Puritans
1629
62
Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630
63
Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island colony
1635-1636
64
Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded
1635-1638
65
Pequot War
1637
66
Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Colony
1638
67
Connecticut's Fundamental orders drafted
1639
68
English Civil War
1642-1648
69
New England Confederation formed
1643
70
William Bradford completes Of Plymouth Plantation
1650
71
New Netherlands conquered New Sweden
1655
72
England seizes New Netherland from Dutch
1664
73
East and West Jersey colonies founded
1664
74
King Philip's war
1675-1676
75
William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony
1681
76
Royal authority creates Dominion of New England
1686
77
Glorious revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England
1688-1689
78
Britain vetoes South Carolina anti slave grade measures
1760
79
Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia
1764
80
Brown College founded
1764
81
Rutgers College founded
1766
82
Regulator Protests
1768-1771
83
Dartmouth College founded
1769
84
Edict of Nantes (repealed in 1685)
1598
85
First Africans arrive in Virginia
1619
86
Population of English colonies in America about 2,000
1625
87
Harvard College founded
1636
88
Half way covenant for Congregational Church membership established
1662
89
Virginia assembly disfranchises landless freemen
1670
90
Bacon's rebellion in Virginia
1676
91
Mass expansion of slavery in colonies
1680s
92
Leisler's Rebellion in New York
1689-1691
93
Salem witch trials in Massachusetts
1692
94
College of William and Mary founded
1693
95
Royal African Company Slave trade monopoly ended
1698
96
Population of English colonies in America about 250,000
1700
97
New York City slave revolt
1712
98
South Carolina slave revolt
1739
99
Yale College founded
1701
100
Smallpox inoculation introduced
1721
101
First edition of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
1732
102
Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening
1734
103
Zenger free-press trial in New York
1734-1735
104
George Whitefield spreads great awakening
1738
105
Princeton College founded
1746
106
Champlain colonies Quebec for France
1608
107
Louis XIV becomes king of France
1643
108
La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
1682
109
King William's War (War of the League of Augsburg)
1689-1697
110
Queen Anne's War (War of Spanish Succession)
1702-1713
111
French found New Orleans
1718
112
War of Jenkin's Ear
1739
113
King George's War (War of Austrian Succession)
1744-1748
114
Washington battles French on frontier
1754
115
Albany Congress
1754
116
Seven Year's War (French and Indian War)
1756-1763
117
Braddock's defeat
1755
118
Pitt emerges as leader of British government
1757
119
Battle of Quebec
1759
120
Peace of Paris
1763
121
Pontiac's Uprising
1763
122
Proclamation of 1763
-_-
123
First navigation laws to control colonial commerce
1650
124
Board of Trade assumes governance of colonies
1696
125
Seven Year's War (French and Indian War) ends
1763
126
Sugar Act
1764
127
Quartering Act
1765
128
Stamp Act
1765
129
Stamp Act Congress
1765
130
Declatory Act
1766
131
Townshend Acts
1767
132
New York legislature suspended by parliament
1767
133
British troops occupy Boston
1768
134
Boston Massacre
1770
135
All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed
1770
136
Committees of Correspondence formed
1772
137
British East India Company granted tea monopoly
1773
138
Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke Boston Tea Party
1773
139
Intolerable Acts
1774
140
Quebec Act
1774
141
First Continental Congress
1774
142
The Association boycotts British goods
1774
143
Battles of Lexington and Concord
1775
144
Second Continental Congess
1775
145
Americans capture British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point
1775
146
Battle of Bunker hill
1775
147
King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion
1775
148
Failed invasion of Canada
1775
149
Paine's Common Sense
1776
150
Declaration of Independance
1776
151
Battle of Trenton
1776
152
Battle of Brandywine
1777
153
Battle of Germantown
1777
154
Battle of Saratoga
1777
155
Formation of French-American alliance
1778
156
Battle of Monmouth
1778
157
Clark's victories in the West
1778-1779
158
Battle of King's mountain
1781
159
Battle of Cowpens
1781
160
Greene leads Carolina campaign
1781
161
French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown
1781
162
North's ministry collapses in Britain
1782
163
Treaty of Paris
1783
