History 144

The Timeline

Nations side by side, the twelve-year eras that shaped each one, and the events that lead from one nation's story into another's.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain
🇺🇸 United States
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇹 Italy
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇸🇻 Central America
🇨🇴 Gran Colombia
🇦🇷 United Provinces
🇧🇷 Brazil
1763–1775
Taxes Leading to Revolution
February 1763 End of the French and Indian War
February 1775 Massachusetts declared in a state of rebellion
⚑Founds — United States
1776–1788
America's Founding
July 1776 The Declaration of Independence
June 1788 The Constitution is ratified
1776–1788
Boulton and Watt’s Steam Engine
March 1776 The Bloomfield Colliery engine starts work
1788 The Lap Engine runs at Soho
1776–1788
Paper Money and America’s First Banks
June 1776 Massachusetts issues new bills of credit
June 1788 The Constitution takes effect, barring states from printing paper money
1776–1788
Property and the Rights of Virginians
June 1776 Virginia adopts George Mason’s Declaration of Rights
June 1788 Virginia’s ratifying convention opens in Richmond
1776–1788
Free Exercise in Virginia
June 12, 1776 The Virginia Declaration of Rights declares free exercise of religion a right, at Madison's urging
June 12, 1788 Madison defends religious liberty before Virginia's ratifying convention
1784–1796
Venice’s Last Commander
March 1784 Venice sends Angelo Emo to make war on Tunis
March 1796 Napoleon takes command of France’s Army of Italy
1789–1801
The Church and the Revolution
November 1789 Church lands confiscated
July 1801 Concordat of 1801
1789–1801
Alexander Mackenzie Crosses the Continent
1789 Descends the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean
1801 Publishes Voyages from Montreal
1789–1801
Boulton and Watt’s Patent Expires
January 1789 Boulton eases royalties for Cornwall’s United Mines
December 1801 Trevithick’s steam carriage climbs Camborne Hill
1789–1801
Washington D.C. Chosen, White House Built
1789 Congress seeks permanent home
March 1801 Jefferson moves into the President's House
1789–1801
The Federalist Era
April 1789 George Washington's first inauguration
March 1801 Thomas Jefferson's first inauguration
1789–1801
The American Banking System
September 1789 Congress creates the Treasury Department and Hamilton becomes its first secretary
May 1801 Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's choice, is confirmed as the first non-Federalist Treasury secretary
1797–1809
Napoleon’s Ascent
October 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio
October 1809 Treaty of Schönbrunn
1802–1814
Trevithick’s High-Pressure Engine
January 1802 Trevithick and Vivian go to London to patent the high-pressure engine
January 1814 Trevithick signs the contract for nine engines for Peru’s silver mines
1802–1814
Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery
1802 Jefferson begins planning the expedition to the Pacific
1814 The expedition journals are published
1802–1814
New Orleans and Louisiana Purchase
January 1802 Congress appropriates $2 million to purchase New Orleans and West Florida
December-January 1814 The British attack New Orleans in War of 1812
⚑Founds — United Provinces
1804–1816
Río de la Plata Independence
December 1804 Spain declares war on Britain
July 1816 Independence declared at Tucumán
1805–1817
The French Decade in Naples
November 1805 Naples breaks its promised neutrality, letting a British-Russian force land
June 1817 A Carbonari rising breaks out at Macerata in the Papal States
⚑Founds — Central America
1810–1822
Central American Independence
1810 Central America represented at the Cortes of Cádiz
January 1822 Central America annexed to the Mexican Empire
1810–1822
Koenig's Steam Printing Press
1810 Friedrich Koenig patents a steam-driven printing press in London
1822 Koenig and Bauer's own Oberzell factory delivers its first press, to Berlin
⚑Founds — Gran Colombia
1810–1822
Birth of Gran Colombia
July 1810 Bolivar visits London to rally support for independence
June 1822 Bolivar liberates Quito achieving independence for Gran Colombia
⚑Founds — Mexico
1810–1822
Mexican Independence
1810 Grito de Dolores
July 1822 Iturbide crowned Emperor of Mexico
⚑Founds — Brazil
1810–1822
Brazilian Independence
1810 Portuguese court flees to Rio
1822 João VI returns to Lisbon
1810–1822
West Florida Annexed
1810 Republic of West Florida declared
1822 Congress organizes the Florida Territory
1818–1830
Ending the Barbary Corsairs
Late 1818 The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle has Britain and France jointly warn Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli to end their raids
July 5, 1830 The dey of Algiers surrenders the city to a French expedition
1831–1843
Ending Slavery in the Empire
1831 The Baptist War — Jamaica’s great slave revolt
1843 Indian Slavery Act abolishes slavery in British India
1831–1843
The Falklands Become British
December 1831 USS Lexington raids the Falklands settlement
1843 The Falklands declared a British Crown Colony

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