Timeline Figures D+E

Sonlight's Timeline Book paired with program-specific Timeline Figures make creating your own timeline easy and delightful.

Figures included in this Timeline Figures set are:

• Columbus (1451-1506) discovers the new world (1492)
• Hernando De Soto (1496-1542) locates Mississippi River
• Esteban's wanderings (1528-1536)
• Pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower (1620)
• Mayflower Compact (1620)
• John Eliot (1604-1690) completes the Algonquian Bible (1661)
• Harvard College Founded (1636)
• King Philip's War (1675-1676)
• Jamestown, Virginia established (1607)
• Pochahontas (1595?-1617)
• William Penn (1644-1718) establishes Pennsylvania (1681)
• General Edward Braddock (1695-1755) fights against the French
• Manhattan Island sold to Dutch (1626)
• First American Thanksgiving (1621)
• French and Indian War (1754-1763)
• "Sugar Act" (1764)
• "Stamp Act" (1765)
• Paul Revere (1735-1818)
• Boston Massacre (1770)
• Boston Tea Party (16 December 1773)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
• George Washington (1732-1799)
• Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806)
• War of 1812 (1812-1815)
• Constitution of the United States (1787)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• The Erie Canal completed (1825)
• Irish Potato Famine (1845-1850)
• Sacagawea (1787?-1812)
• Balloon frame house construction begins (1832)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
• Eli Whitney (1765-1825) invents the cotton gin (1793) and interchangeable parts for the gun (1801)
• Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)
• Santa Fe Trail (1821-1880)
• Transcontinental railroad completed (1869)
• Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
• William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) elected President (1840)
• California Gold Rush (1849)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913)
• Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
• Cattle drives from Texas to Wyoming (ca. 1865- ca. 1890)
• Adoniram (1788-1850) and Ann (1789-1826) Judson
• Henry Ford (1863-1947) designs assembly line (1913)
• Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) invents the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture
• Reconstruction (1863-1877)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Jane Addams (1860-1935) starts Hull-House
• NAACP begins (1909)
• Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) invents the telegraph
• Railroads adopt standard time (1883); Becomes law (1918)
• Brooklyn Bridge completed (1883)
• Empire State Building completed (1931)
• Civil War (1861-1865)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
• Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), president of the U.S. (1913-1921)
• Spanish-American War (1898)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Panama Canal completed (1914)
• Spanish influenza epidemic (winter 1918-1919)
• League of Nations (1920)
• Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925)
• Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) performs first transatlantic solo airplane flight (May 1927)
• Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), president of the U.S. (1929-1933)
• Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian dictator
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR; 1882-1945), president (1933-1945)
• Social Security tax initiated (1935)
• Great Depression (1929-1930s)
• The Dust Bowl (the drought in Oklahoma) (1930s)
• Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright create the first "airplane" (1903)
• Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• George Washington Carver (1864?-1943)
• Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), supreme commander of Allied Forces and president
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British prime minister
• Josef Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet Union dictator
• Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), as president, drops first atomic bomb
• Atomic Bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
• Russians launch Sputnik (1957)
• General Douglas Macarthur (1880-1964)
• Vietnam War (1954-1975) U.S. in Vietnam (1961-1975)
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
• Rosa Parks (1913-2005) catapults the civil rights movement (1955)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) assassinated (1968)
• First Moon landing (July 1969)
• Stonehenge built (ca. 2700 BC)
• Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) rounds Cape and sails to India (1497)
• Mary Tudor (1516-1558), "Bloody Mary"

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