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Timeline of pre–United States history

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This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution (c. 1760).

Antiquity

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  • c. 27,000–12,000 years ago – Humans cross the Beringia land bridge into North and then South America. Dates of earliest migration to the Americas is highly debated.
  • c. 15,500 year old arrowhead; oldest verified arrowhead in the Americas, found in Texas.[1]
  • c. 11,500 BCE – Start of Clovis Culture in North America.
  • c. 10,200 BCE – Cooper Bison skull is painted with a red zigzag in present-day Oklahoma, becoming the oldest known painted object in North America.
  • c. 9500 BC – Cordilleran and Laurentide Ice Sheets retreat enough to open a habitable ice-free corridor through the northern half of the continent (North America) along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains.
  • c. 1000 BCE-1000 CEWoodland Period of Pre-Columbian Native Americans in Eastern America.
  • 200 CE – Pyramid of the Sun built near modern-day Mexico City.
  • 250–900 CE – Classic Period of the Maya Civilization
  • 600 CE – Emergence of Mississippian culture in North America.

988–1490

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1492–1499

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Landing of Columbus, 1847 by John Vanderlyn, depicts Christopher Columbus landing in the New World.

1500–1599

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1600–1699

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1600s

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1610s

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1620s

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The Mayflower in Plymouth.

1630s

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Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the founder of Maryland

1640s

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1650s

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1660s

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New Amsterdam is captured by the English

1670s

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1680s

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1690s

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1700–1759

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1700s

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1710s

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1720s

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1730s

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1740s

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1750s

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See Timeline of the American Revolution for events starting from 1760.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Oldest Weapon Discovered in North America is a 15,000-Year-Old Spearhead". 31 October 2018.
  2. ^ Birgitta Wallace, "The Norse in Newfoundland: L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 19.1 (2005). online Archived 2014-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Hopi Places". Cline Library, Northern Arizona University.
  4. ^ Casey, Robert L. Journey to the High Southwest. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2007: 382. ISBN 978-0-7627-4064-2.