ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - North America </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Distionary </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histdic/wh/hdnamerica.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../whchapters.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../biographies/wh/bionamerica.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Biographies </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on June 18th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline History of North America </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/wh/tlnamerica.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> c.1000-1020 <BR> 1497 <BR> 1513, 1521 <BR> 1539 <BR> 1565 <BR> 1607 <BR> 1608 <BR> 1620 <BR> 1625 <BR> 1634 <BR> 1638 <BR> 1655 <BR> 1664 <BR><BR> 1699 <BR> 1741 <BR> 1754-1763 <BR> 1759 <BR> 1763 <BR> 1769 <BR> 1773 <BR> 1776 <BR> 1777 <BR> 1784 <BR> 1791 <BR> 1800 <BR> 1803 <BR> 1819/1821 <BR> 1836 <BR> 1845 <BR> 1846-1848 <BR><BR> 1849 <BR> 1859 <BR> 1861-1865 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1867 <BR> 1867 <BR> 1868 <BR> 1869 <BR> 1877 <BR><BR> 1886 <BR> 1896 <BR> 1898 <BR> 1903 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1911 <BR> 1911 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1919-1933 <BR> 1929 <BR> 1939-1945 <BR> 1945 <BR> 1949 <BR> 1950-1954 <BR> 1950-1953 <BR> 1957 <BR> 1963 <BR> 1964-1973 <BR> 1968 <BR> 1969 <BR> 1991 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Viking settlement at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland <BR> Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) claimed Newfoundland for England <BR> Spaniard Ponce de Leon visited Florida <BR> expedition of Spaniard Hernan de Soto <BR> Spaniard Pedro Memendez de Aviles founded St. Augustine, Florida <BR> London Virginia Company established Jamestown, Virginia <BR> Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City <BR> Pilgrim Fathers established Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony <BR> Dutch W.I.C. (Peter Minuit) established Nieue Amsterdam (present New York) <BR> Colony of Maryland established as settlement colony for English Catholics <BR> colony of New Sweden (Nya Sverige) established in Delaware, extending into New Jersey <BR> New Sweden taken, annexed by New Netherlands (W.I.C.) <BR> English fleet sailing for the Duke of York took Nieue Amsterdam from the Dutch, renamed it <BR> New York <BR> French settlement of Louisiana <BR> Vitus Bering crossed Bering Straits, claimed Alaska for Russia <BR> French and Indian War; English, Iroquois allies faced French, their Huron, Ottawa allies <BR> Quebec City conquered by the British (James Wolfe); France ceded Canada to Britain in 1763 <BR> Spain ceded Florida to the British; France had ceded Louisiana to Spain in 1762 <BR> first Spanish, Franciscan mission established in California <BR> Boston Tea Party <BR> United States (13 Colonies) declared independence <BR> Vermont declared independence <BR> Britain ceded Florida back to the Spanish <BR> Vermont joined the U.S. <BR> Spain ceded Louisiana to France <BR> France (Napoleon Bonaparte) sold Louisiana to U.S. <BR> Spain ceded Florida to U.S. <BR> Texas declared independence from Mexico <BR> Texas admitted to U.S. <BR> Mexican-American War; U.S. annexed (Northern) California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, <BR> New Mexico <BR> begin of California Gold Rush <BR> Oil found in Titusville, Pennsylvania <BR> U.S. Civil War <BR> Emancipation Proclamation - slaves freed in U.S. <BR> U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia <BR> Canada granted Home Rule, within the British Empire <BR> Carnegie Steel Co. founded <BR> first North American trans-continental railroad completed <BR> U.S. : submission of the Nez Perce, the last free Indian tribe in the lower 48 states; end of the <BR> Indian Wars <BR> Chicago, U.S. : Haymarket riots (labour dispute) <BR> Alaska (Klondyke) Gold Rush <BR> Spanish-American War; U.S. became colonial power <BR> Detroit : Ford Motor Co. established <BR> U.S. leased Panama Canal Zone; Panama Canal opened 1914 <BR> Standard Oil broken up necause it violated anti-trust law <BR> first Hollywood film studio founded <BR> World War I; Canada involved from the start, U.S. since 1917 <BR> U.S. : Prohibition <BR> Wall Street Crash; begin of Great Depression <BR> World War II, Canada involved from the start, U.S. since 1941 <BR> U.S. nuclear power <BR> Newfoundland and Labrador independent of British rule; opted to join Canada <BR> U.S. : McCarthyism <BR> Korean War <BR> U.S. : Sputnik-Shock <BR> U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated <BR> U.S. engagement in Vietnam War <BR> U.S. : Peak of Civil Rights Movement; Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King assassinated <BR> NASA (U.S.) landed first man on the moon (Neil Armstrong) <BR> Second Gulf War : U.S. lead coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "200"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 13 Colonies' Population <BR> U.S. Population <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "510"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1650 c .52,000, 1700 c. 250,000, 1760 c.1,700,000 <BR> 4 million in 1800, 50 million in 1880, 75 million in 1900, 100 million in 1920, presently 292 million <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> REFERENCE : <BR> Timeline of U.S. History, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history">Wikipedia</A> <BR> Timeline History of Canada, from <A HREF = "http://www.gregg1.freeserve.co.uk/TLINEcan.htm">Gregg Family History Project</A>; from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Canadian_history">Wikipedia</A> <BR> Alaska Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://www.worldhistory.com/alaska_timeline.htm">worldhistory.com</A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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