英美历史大事年表 2.doc

Time Place Event People Result 1492 The discovery of America Christopher Columbus 1607 Jamestown, Virginia The first settlers from Britain Charted company 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts Some more Puritans came to America in Mayflower 102 Puritans (Pilgrim Fathers) More and more Puritans came here in 1630s-40s and set up the first 13 colonies. 1773 Boston Boston Tea Party The fuse of the War of Independence 1774 Philadelphia The First Continental Congress Colonial militia 1775 Concord and Lexington The gunshot in Lexington The beginning of the War of Independence 1776 Philadelphia The Second Continental Congress The Congress founded a Continental Army and Navy under the command of George Washington. Thomas Jefferson drafted Declaration of Independence 1776 Saratoga in Northern New York Washington’s victory The turning point of the war 1781 Yorktown The British troops under General George Cornwallis surrendered. 1783 Paris Treaty of Paris, Britain recognized the independence of U.S. 1787 Philadelphia The Constitutional Convention 宪法会议 All the states but Rhode Island Follow-up: Bill of Rights 1812 The war between America and Britain After this war, the two countries had a lasting peace. 1783-1853 Territorial Expansion Louisiana Purchase; Texas [Mexican War] 1861-1865 North and South Civil War Union (by Lincoln) vs the Confederate Emancipation Proclamation; Gettysburg Address 1910s-1920s Progressivism Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson Reforms in social, economic and political areas 1914-1918 WWI Neutral but pro-Ally; war on Germany in 1917 1929-1938 New York The Great Depression Hoover’s inaction Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1932 1939 WWII; Isolationist policy, pro-Ally, was, [change of policy] 1941 The Pearl Harbour War on the Axis Power 1943 Teheran, Iran Teheran Conference U.S. Britain, Soviet Union Normandy Campaign and “Overlord” 1945 Yalta, Soviet Union Yalta Conference U.S, Britain, Soviet Union Red