Timeline of North America

This is a timeline of in, from 1000 BC until.

Timeline

 * For times predating 1000 BC see .


 * 1000 BC–800 AD: The develops in the Western Arctic along the n shore of the
 * 1000 BC: -speaking natives arrive in Alaska and western Canada, possibly from.
 * 1000 BC: Pottery making widespread in the.
 * 1000 BC–100 AD: takes form in the  valley, carving fine stone s placed with their dead in gigantic burial mounds.
 * 500–1 BC: phase of early  culture begins in the American Southwest.
 * 500 BC–AD 1000: on the
 * 300 BC: people, possibly descended from the, appear in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico.
 * 200 BC–500 AD: The begins flourishing in much of the East, with  mining centered in the Great Lakes region.
 * 1 BC: Some central and eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape from the  to their east.
 * 500 BC–700 AD: thrives in the western
 * 50 BC–800 AD: thrives in the western.
 * 1 AD: Some central and eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape from the  to their east.
 * 100–1000: flourishes in coastal . They are known for their extraordinarily well-preserved wood carvings.
 * 200: The of the  valley evolves into the.
 * 200–800: cultures flourish in the Eastern North America.
 * 200–1450: s flourish in and north
 * 400: Cultivation of (corn) begins in the American Southeastern Woodlands and soon reaches the Northeastern Woodlands. Originally domesticated in, maize transforms the.
 * 400: of the American Southwest weave extraordinarily long nets for trapping small animals and make  fibers into large sacks and bags.
 * 500: phase of  culture diminishes in the American Southwest.
 * 700: of the American Southwest evolve into the early  culture.
 * 755±65—890±65: likely dates of the being sculpted by ancestral  and s in the ,
 * 700–800: of the American Southwest or  transition from s to multi-story  and stone apartments called s.
 * 800–1500: spawns powerful chiefdoms of great agricultural  throughout the.
 * 875: people begin farming along the  valley in western Arizona and eastern California.
 * 900: Earliest event recorded in the Battiste Good (1821–22, )
 * 900: culture dominates much of the American Southwest.
 * 900: American Southwestern tribes trade with to obtain copper bells cast through the.
 * 915 (exact date): Construction begins at, the largest Ancestral Pueblo Great House.
 * 1000: Discovery of by  and.
 * 1000-1200: and  are established, become the
 * 1000–1750: culture, a non- emerges in modern-day southern, northern , southeastern , and western.
 * 1000–1780: on Great Plains, from  to
 * 1070: built in Ohio.
 * 1100: in  reaches apex in size at 800 rooms
 * 1100: reaches apex in present-day
 * Scandinavians briefly settled (likely  on the Canadian Maritime island of ) early in the century and perhaps ventured as far south as New England.
 * The began absorbing the old  in Arctic Alaska.
 * 900–1150: in the American Southwest
 * 1000–1200: in the Eastern Woodlands
 * 1000–1200: and  are established, and become the
 * 1142: is founded, and the  is adopted by the, , , , and .   invented by , which the  used to record information.
 * 1150–1350: in the American Southwest
 * The Inuit largely displaced the old  in Arctic Alaska.
 * The most important city of the of,  on the  opposite modern , reached its zenith. It was the largest city in North America in the 12th century.
 * 1150–1350: are in their
 * 1200: Construction begins on the near . This ceremonial center for the  is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century.
 * 1200–1400: flourishes in the
 * 1250: emerges in
 * 1250:, , and other architectural complexes reach their apex
 * The Inuit have completely displaced the old  in Arctic Alaska.
 * people in the American Southwest evacuate most above-ground pueblos to build spectacular s housing hundreds of people.
 * The dominant begin gradually absorbing the  culture in the American Southwest.
 * -speaking people begin migrating from the prairies of Alberta and Montana toward the.
 * The area of the American Southwest suffered severe droughts late in the century, causing many Pueblos to abandon their cliff dwellings for irrigable settlements along the  in southern New Mexico.
 * 1300: is abandoned.
 * 1200–1400: in the Eastern Woodlands
 * 1315–1317: The brought a period of severe decline to medieval Europe, causing the.
 * The 14th century in America probably also brought decline of the, especially in the northern states.  suggests that severe droughts ravaged the American Southwest and especially the Southern Plains early in the period, leading to a rapid cultural decline.
 * -speaking people continue to migrate southward from the Canadian prairies toward the.
 * -speaking and  reach the  after migrating over three centuries from the western Canadian prairies.
 * 1497: Italian navigator sails from England to Newfoundland (first European contact on the American continent since the  500 years earlier.
 * 1497: Italian navigator sails from England to Newfoundland (first European contact on the American continent since the  500 years earlier.
 * 1497: Italian navigator sails from England to Newfoundland (first European contact on the American continent since the  500 years earlier.
 * 1497: Italian navigator sails from England to Newfoundland (first European contact on the American continent since the  500 years earlier.