By Patrick Irvin • Nov 26th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

United States History: Timeline: Before - 1700

 

http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/0000_1600_timeline.htm

 

30K to 15K BC - First Humans migrate to Americas, probability from Beringa

 

13,000 BC - Global Warming trend begins “Folsom points” in New Mexico – probably group hunting

 

10,000 BC - Clovis Technology – Kennewick Man

 

9,000 BC - Extinction of Big Game Animals

 

8,500 BC - Evidence of group hunting in Colorado

 

8,000 BC - Beginning of Archaic period

 

7,000 BC - First cultivation of plants in Mexican highlands

 

5,000 BC - Athapascan migration to America begins

 

4,000 BC - First settled communities along Pacific coast

 

3,000 BC - Inupiat and Aleut migrations begin (Persian and Egyptian Civilizations developing in Middle East)

 

1,500 – 1,000 BC Maize and other Mexican crops introduced into Southwest (Greek and Roman Civilizations developing in Mediterranean)

 

1,200 BC The Trojan War, civil war

 

1000 BC - Beginning of Adena culture – urban communities in Mexico

 

800 - 700 BC Greek Monarchies begin to be replaced by Aristocratic Republics.

 

753 BC – Traditional date for the founding of Rome by Romulus

 

638 BC–558 BC - Solon - remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens.

 

621 BC - Draco’s code of law - Athens.   A harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death–hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures.

 

593 BC - Solon modifications to Draco’s Code - Solon revised every statute except that on homicide and made Athenian law altogether more humane.

 

509 BC – Roman Republic begins.

 

507 BC Cleisthenes’ democratic constitution introduced democratic government to ancient Athens.  This new structure was based on the principle of equal rights for all citizens and greatly increased popular participation in government.

 

484-425 BC Herodotus - The ‘Father of History’

 

460-400 BC Thueydides - The ‘Father of the school of political realism’

 

404 BC Athens Surrenders to Sparta.

 

384-322 BC Demosthenes – Athinina Orator who idialized Athens and opposed Macadonian expansion

 

380 BC – Plato’s ‘Republic’ - one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato’s best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by constructing an imaginary city ruled by philosopher-kings.

 

339 BC – Rome Law passed (the lex Publilia) which requires the election of one Plebeian censor for each five year term.

 

336 - 323 BC Alexander the Great’s reign begins.

 

203–120 BC Pollybius - renowned for his ideas of political balance in the government

 

200 BC – 400 AD Hopewell culture – Ohio and Mississippi

 

86 BC Athens is sacked by Sulla.

 

106 BC - 43 BC Cicero –  Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist

 

55 BC - Cicero - “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome becomes bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

 

86 BC-34 BC Sallust - stood by his principle as a populares, an opposer of Pompey’s party and the old aristocracy of Rome.

 

27 BC – End of the Republic, beginning of the Roman Empire

 

59 BC - AD 17 - Livy - Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome

 

46 AD - 120 - Plutarch - work is collected under the title of ‘the Moralia’

 

56 AD - 117 - Tacitus - the Annals and the Histories, examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors.  

 

69 AD - 130 - Suetonius - Suetonius regarded emperors who amassed wealth for the public purse to be “greedy”, perhaps a reflection of the average Roman middle class attitudes.

 

313 AD - Constantine issues Edict of Milan, ending persecution of Christians and establishing religious toleration throughout the Empire.

 

410 AD – Rome is sacked by Alaric I

 

485-511: Reign of Clovis I, Merovingian King of the Franks

 

533 AD – Justinian I begins to restore the Roman Empire in the west; Belisarius defeats the Vandals

 

650 AD - Bow and arrow and other crude tools, corn in Northwest

 

663 AD – Constans II is the last emperor to visit Rome, and the city gradually slips out of imperial control.

 

732 AD - Charles Martel was the first leader of the Carolingian dynasty. He expanded the Frankish kingdom and stopped the Muslim advance into Europe

 

768-814 Charlemagne rules as King of the Franks

 

800 AD - Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III

 

1000 AD - tobacco in use

 

1000 A.D. - Leif Ericson, a Viking seaman, explores the east coast of North America and sights Newfoundland, establishing a short-lived settlement there.

 

1066 AD - William of Normandy invades England; Battle of Hastings

 

1086 - The Doomsday Book is compiled, a complete inventory of Britain

 

1150 - founding of Hopi village in New Mexico

 

1200 - high point of Mississippian cultures - Cahokia

 

- Oxford University (actually in being since 1096) formally organized http://www.ox.ac.uk/

 

1215 - The Magna Carta document is adopted in England, guaranteeing liberties to the English people, and proclaiming basic rights and procedures which later become the foundation stone of modern democracy.

 

1337-1443 The Hundred Years’ War

 

1415 - English defeat the French at the battle of Agincourt

 

1450 - PRINTING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED IN EUROPE By 1501 there were 1000 printing shops in Europe, which had produced 35,000 titles and 20 million copies.

 

- Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy in Northeast U.S.

 

1492 - COLUMBUS - Columbus makes the first of four voyages to the New World, funded by the Spanish Crown, seeking a western sea route to Asia. On October 12, sailing the Santa Maria, he lands in the Bahamas, thinking it is an outlying Japanese island.

 

1497 - John Cabot of England explores the Atlantic coast of Canada, claiming the area for the English King, Henry VII. Cabot is the first of many European explorers to seek a Northwest Passage (northern water route) to Asia

 

1499 - Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, sights the coast of South America during a voyage of discovery for Spain.

 

1507 - The name “America” is first used in a geography book referring to the New World with Amerigo Vespucci getting credit for the discovery of the continent.

 

1508 - Spanish Invade Puerto Rico

 

1509 - 1547 Henry Vlll succeeds to the throne of England.

 

1513 - Ponce de Leon lands in Florida

 

1516 - Smallpox introduced in New World

 

1517 - Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation in Europe, bringing an end to the sole authority of the Catholic Church, resulting in the growth of numerous Protestant religious sects.

 

1519 - Cortes lands in Mexico

 

1519-1522 - Ferdinand Magellan is the first person to sail around the world.

 

1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano, sponsored by France, lands in the area around the Carolinas, then sails north and discovers the Hudson River, and continues northward into Narragansett Bay and Nova Scotia.

 

1534 - Cartier explores the St. Lawrence

 

1539 – De Soto and De Coronado mount expeditions

 

1541 - Hernando De Soto of Spain discovers the Mississippi River

 

- tobacco introduced in Europe (native’s revenge)

 

- SPANISH ARE FOUNDING CITIES IN PERU AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA BEFORE THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY.

 

1558 - Elizabeth I of England begins her 45 year reign

 

1562-98: The Wars of Religion in France

 

1565 - Spanish found St. Augustine, Florida.

 

1584 - Raleigh’s Roanoke Island Va. Colony

 

1588 - In Europe, the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English results in Great Britain replacing Spain as the dominant world power and leads to a gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World and the widening of English imperial interests

 

1590 - Roanoke found abandoned

 

1598 – De Onate leads Spanish into New Mexico

 

1607 - English found Jamestown, Virginia

 

1608 - French found Quebec - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1608champlain.html

 

1609 - Spanish found Santa Fe

 

1613 - A Dutch trading post is set up on lower Manhattan Island.

 

1619 - DUTCH DELIVER FIRST SLAVES TO VIRGINIA

 

1620 - November 9, the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists. On November 11, the Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men, establishing a form of local government in which the colonists agree to abide by majority rule and to cooperate for the general good of the colony. The Compact sets the precedent for other colonies as they set up governments.

  

1690 - The beginning of King William’s War as hostilities in Europe between the French and English spill over to the colonies. In February, Schenectady, New York is burned by the French with the aid of their Native American allies.

 

1691 - In New York, the newly appointed Governor of New England, Henry Sloughter, arrives from England and institutes royally sanctioned representative government. In October, Massachusetts gets a new royal charter which includes government by a royal governor and a governor’s council.

 

1692 - In May, hysteria grips the village of Salem, Massachusetts, as witchcraft suspects are arrested and imprisoned. A special court is then set up by the governor of Massachusetts. Between June and September, 150 persons are accused, with 20 persons, including 14 women, being executed. By October, the hysteria subsides, remaining prisoners are released and the special court is dissolved.

 

1693 - The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg, Virginia.

 

1696 - The Royal African Trade Company loses its slave trade monopoly, spurring colonists in New England to engage in slave trading for profit. In April, the Navigation Act of 1696 is passed by the English Parliament requiring colonial trade to be done exclusively via English built ships. The Act also expands the powers of colonial custom commissioners, including rights of forcible entry, and requires the posting of bonds on certain goods.

 

1699 - The English Parliament passes the Wool Act, protecting its own wool industry by limiting wool production in Ireland and forbidding the export of wool from the American colonies.

 

1 Comment »

1. this is very helpful

   Comment by MONISH JOHN — February 28, 2010 @ 7:19 am

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