CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

1000 (circa)The Northmen reach America.
1492Columbus lands at Watling’s Island.
1497John Cabot lands near the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
1498Voyage of Sebastian Cabot.
1499–1503Americus Vespucius makes four voyages to America.
1512Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
1513Balboa discovers the Pacific.
1520Magellan passes the straits named after him.
1541De Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
1562–1564Huguenots in South Carolina and Florida.
1565St. Augustine, Florida, founded by the Spanish.
1577–1580Drake makes his voyage round the world.
1584–1587Sir Walter Raleigh sends out colonists.
1607Founding of Jamestown, Virginia.
1608Champlain founds Quebec.
1609Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
1614The Dutch settle on Manhattan Island.
1620Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
1626The Dutch found New Amsterdam (New York City).
1630Winthrop leads Puritan emigration to Massachusetts.
1630Boston founded.
1632Charter for Maryland granted the second Lord Baltimore.
1634St. Mary’s, Maryland, founded.
1635Settlements made in Connecticut.
1636Roger Williams founds Providence, Rhode Island.
1636Harvard College founded.
1638New Haven settled.
1638Swedes occupy Delaware.
1639Constitution of Connecticut framed.
1643New England Confederacy established.
1663Government organized in North Carolina.
1664The English seize New Netherland and settle in New Jersey.
1670Settlement in South Carolina. Charleston founded.
1674–1676King Philip’s War.
1676Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia.
1682La Salle explores Mississippi River.
1682Philadelphia founded.
1689–1697King William’s War.
1690Colonial Congress at New York.
1692Salem witchcraft.
1692William and Mary College (Virginia) founded.
1697Peace of Ryswick.
1701Detroit founded.
1701Yale College founded.
1702–1703Queen Anne’s War.
1713Treaty of Utrecht.
1718The French found New Orleans.
1730Baltimore founded.
1733Savannah founded.
1744–1748King George’s War.
1745Capture of Louisburg.
1746Princeton College founded.
1748Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
1754King’s (Columbia) College founded.
1754French and Indian War begins (ends 1763).
1755Braddock’s defeat.
1759Capture of Quebec.
1763Peace of Paris.
1763The Conspiracy of Pontiac.
1765The Stamp Act passed.
1766Repeal of Stamp Act.
1767Townshend Acts.
1768British troops in Boston.
1770Boston Massacre.
1773“Boston Tea-party.”
1774Boston Port Bill.
1774First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia.
1775Battles of Lexington and Concord. Siege of Boston. Battle of Bunker Hill.
1775Mecklenburg Resolutions.
1776Declaration of Independence.
1777Victories of Princeton, Bennington, and Saratoga. Defeats of Brandywine and Germantown. Washington at Valley Forge.
1778France becomes an ally of the United States.
1779Naval victories of Paul Jones.
1780Arnold’s treason.
1781Articles of Confederation finally agreed to.
1781Battle of Cowpens. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown.
1782Preliminary treaty with Great Britain.
1783Peace of Versailles.
1787Federal Convention frames the Constitution.
1787Ordinance concerning the Northwest Territory passed by Congress.
1788The states ratify the Constitution.
1789Washington inaugurated at New York. Organization of Congress and the Departments.
1792Formation of Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties.
1793Washington’s proclamation of neutrality.
1795Jay’s Treaty ratified.
1798The Alien and Sedition Laws.
1798The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
1800The city of Washington becomes the national capital.
1801Jefferson elected President by the House of Representatives.
1803Purchase of Louisiana.
1804Expedition of Lewis and Clark.
1807Fulton’s steamboat.
1807Passage of the Embargo.
1809The Non-intercourse Act.
1812War with Great Britain.
1814The British capture Washington.
1814The Hartford Convention.
1814The Treaty of Ghent.
1815The battle of New Orleans.
1819Florida purchased from Spain.
1820First Missouri Compromise.
1823Monroe Doctrine.
1825Erie Canal opened.
1830Hayne-Webster debate.
1830Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened.
1832Nullification in South Carolina.
1832Rise of the Whig party.
1833Chicago founded.
1836Independence of Texas.
1840Sub-treasury system established.
1840Liberty party formed.
1842Ashburton Treaty.
1842Dorr’s Rebellion in Rhode Island.
1844Morse completes the first telegraph line.
1846–1848Mexican War.
1846Wilmot Proviso.
1846Oregon Treaty.
1848Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1848Discovery of gold in California.
1850Compromise of 1850.
1850Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
1852Rise of Know-Nothing party.
1853Gadsden Purchase.
1854Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
1854Republican party formed.
1855Struggle in Kansas.
1857Dred Scott Decision.
1858First Atlantic cable.
1858Lincoln-Douglas debates.
1859John Brown’s raid.
1860Election of Lincoln. Secession of South Carolina.
1861–1865The Civil War.
1862Fight between Merrimac and Monitor.
1863Proclamation of Emancipation.
1863Battle of Gettysburg. Capture of Vicksburg.
1864Battle of the Wilderness.
1865Surrender of Lee and Johnson.
1865Assassination of Lincoln.
1866Successful laying of the Atlantic cable.
1867Congressional system of reconstruction.
1867Purchase of Alaska.
1868Impeachment of President Johnson.
1869Completion of the Pacific Railroad.
1871Treaty of Washington.
1876Electoral Commission.
1877Troops withdrawn from the South.
1879Resumption of specie payments.
1883Civil Service Reform Commission.
1892Rise of People’s Party.
1898War declared with Spain. Treaty of Paris. Acquisition of the Philippines.
1898Annexation of Hawaii.
1901Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
1902Panama Canal authorized.
1905Treaty of Portsmouth.
1907Financial crisis.

Distribution of the Barbarous Tribes
East of the Mississippi

PART I.
PERIOD OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT,
1492–1765.

CHAPTER I.
discovery.

THE AMERICAN INDIANS.