| Date | Event | |
| 3 BC | Birth of Christ | |
| Gen 1-2 | *Creation | |
| Gen 3 | *The Fall in the Garden | |
| Gen 4 | *Cain & Abel | |
| Gen 6-9 | *The Flood & God’s Covenant with Noah | |
| Gen 11 | *Tower of Babel | |
| 1095-1250 | *The Crusades | |
| 1215 | *The Magna Carta | |
| 1300-1517 | The Renaissance | |
| 1380 | John Wycliffe and John Huss | |
| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople | |
| 1456 | Gutenberg Prints the Bible | |
| 1478 | The Inquisition (Spain) | |
| 1492 | Columbus Sails to the New World | |
| 1517 | Martin Luther Begins the Reformation | |
| 1563 | Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Foxe) | |
| 1607 | Jamestown is Founded in Virginia | |
| 1607-1733 | 13 Colonies Formed | |
| 1620 | The Mayflower Lands at Plymouth | |
| 1642-1651 | The English Civil War | |
| 1649 | The Westminster Confession of Faith | |
| 1650 | Of Plymouth Plantation (Bradford) | |
| 1678 | The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) | |
| 1706-1790 (1790) | Life of Benjamin Franklin (Autobiography of Ben Franklin) | |
| 1715-1789 | Age of Enlightenment (aka Age of Reason) | |
| 1740-1742 | The First Great Awakening | |
| 1750 | Colonial Trading with England | |
| 1754-1763 | The French and Indian Wars | |
| 1760-1840 | Industrial Revolution (England) | |
| 1762 | The Social Contract (Rousseau) | |
| 1764-1774 | Parliament Acts Unjustly | |
| 1774 | First Continental Congress Seeks Peace with Britain | |
| 1775-1783 | The War for Independence (aka American Revolution) | |
| July 4, 1776 | America Declares its Independence (Declaration of Independence) | |
| 1780-1865 | Slavery in the South | |
| 1781, 1783 | Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris | |
| 1787 | The Constitutional Convention | |
| 1787-1791 | Debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists | |
| 1789-1799 | The French Revolution | |
| 1789 | The US Constitution adopted | |
| 1789 | Washington, 1st US President… | |
| 1799-1830 | The Second Great Awakening | |
| 1800-1890 | Age of Romanticism | |
| 1803 | The Louisiana Purchase from France | |
| 1804 | Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France | |
| 1812-1815 | The War of 1812 | |
| 1813 | Pride & Prejudice (Austin) | |
| 1818 | Frankenstein (Shelley) | |
| 1820 | The Missouri Compromise | |
| 1830 | The Cotton Gin Establishes the South | |
| 1830 | The Cherokee Trail of Tears | |
| 1832-1865 | Lincoln’s Speeches (Lincoln) | |
| 1841 | Westward Expansion | |
| 1844 | Invention of the Telegraph | |
| 1846-1848 | War with Mexico | |
| 1848 | The Communist Manifesto (Marx) | |
| 1849 | 49ers and the California Gold Rush | |
| 1850 | Opening of the Oregon Territory | |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe) | |
| 1858 | **Phantastes (MacDonald) | |
| 1859 | A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) | |
| 1859 | The Origin of Species (Darwin) | |
| 1861-1865 | Lincoln, the 16th President | |
| 1861-1865 | War Between the States | |
| 1863 | The Battle of Gettysburg | |
| 1865-1870 | Reconstructing the South | |
| 1869 | Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | |
| 1870-1900 | Age of Industry (America) | |
| 1870 | Black Leadership Emerges in the South | |
| 1876 | Finney’s Autobiography (Finney) | |
| 1876 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) | |
| c 1900 | Immigration to America | |
| 1914-1918 | The Great World War | |
| 1917 | Lenin & Bolshevik Revolution in Russia | |
| 1919 | The Treaty of Versailles | |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment: Women’s Suffrage (Right to Vote) in US | |
| 1920-1929 | The Raring Twenties | |
| 1923 | Christianity & Liberalism (Machen) | |
| 1924 | Stalin Becomes Leader of USSR | |
| 1925 | Ford and The First Affordable Car | |
| 1925 | Electricity Becomes Common in US Homes | |
| 1925 | Mein Kampf (Hitler) | |
| 1925 | The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) | |
| 1929-1939 | The Great Depression & the New Deal | |
| 1930s | The Golden Age of Radio | |
| 1932 | **Brave New Word (Huxley) | |
| 1936-1938 | The Slave Narratives (American Slaves, Sanctioned by FDR) | |
| 1938 | **Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis) | |
| 1939-1945 | World War II | |
| 1940 (rev 1972) | **How to Read a Book | |
| 1944 | **Perelandra (Lewis) | |
| 1945 | **That Hideous Strength (Lewis) | |
| 1945 | Animal Farm (Orwell) | |
| 1945 | **The Great Divorce (Lewis) | |
| 1945 | The United Nations Formed | |
| 1945-1991 | The Cold War | |
| 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-four (Orwell) | |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | |
| 1949 | Mao and Communist Victory in China | |
| 1950-1953 | The Korean War | |
| 1952 | The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) | |
| 1955 | Black & White Television Becomes Common in US Homes | |
| 1957-1969 | The Space Race | |
| 1965-1975 | The Vietnam Conflict | |
| 1970 | Age of Information & Globalization | |
| 1972 | Watergate, President Nixon Resigns | |
| 1973 | Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Decision | |
| 1974 | The Killer Angels (Shaara) | |
| 1979 | How Should We Then Live (Schaeffer) | |
| 1989-1991 | Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe | |
| 1993 | European Union Formed | |
| 1994 | Postmodern Times (Veith) | |
| 2001 | September 11, 2001 | |
| 2007 | First Generation iPhone Hits the US Market | |
- QUIZLET – test your memorization by using QUIZLET to practice the timeline!
- Timeline with added books for quarter 1 (updated 8/31)