| 1700 | |
| 1702 | Founding of J.E. Rhoads & Sons, America's Oldest Continuing Business |
| 1706 | Benjamin Franklin Born |
| 1710 | |
| 1717 | Founding of Covenant Life Insurance (Presbyterian Ministers' Fund) |
| 1720 | |
| 1723 | Birth of Adam Smith |
| 1723 | England: Act of Parliament Allows Establishment of Workhouses |
| 1727 | Tobacco Notes Become Legal Tender in Virginia |
| 1730 | |
| 1740 | |
| 1750 | |
| 1750 | The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England |
| 1760 | |
| 1760 | Wampum Factory Opened in New Jersey |
| 1763 | John Jacob Astor Born. Astor's Fortune in Furs & Real Estate Eventually Grows to $20,000,000 |
| 1770 | |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | 1st Continental Congress |
| 1775 | American Revolution Begins |
| 1780 | |
| 1781 | Bank of North America Incorporated |
| 1783 | Revolutionary War Ends |
| 1790 | |
| 1790 | Bavaria: Establishment of Work Institution for the Poor to Manufacture Clothing |
| 1792 | New York Stock Exchange Founded |
| 1800 | |
| 1802 | Eleuthere Du Pont Establishes E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co |
| 1810 | |
| 1820 | |
| 1825 | Erie Canal Opened |
| 1828 | Baltimore & Ohio, 1st U.S. Passenger Railroad, was Begun |
| 1830 | |
| 1835 | Samuel Morse Invents a Commercially Viable Telegraph |
| 1837 | First Steamship Built for North Atlantic Ocean Travel |
| 1840 | |
| 1840 | England: "Labor Yards" Established Where Unemployed Could Come and Work |
| 1844 | 1st Message Sent Over 1st Telegraph Wire |
| 1848 | U.S.-Mexican War Ends with Mexico Ceding Almost Half Its Territory to the US |
| 1848 | California Gold Rush Begins |
| 1850 | |
| 1851 | Isaac Singer Patents the Sewing Machine |
| 1859 | 1st Commercial Producing Oil Well |
| 1860 | |
| 1867 | U.S. Buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million |
| 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad Completed |
| 1870 | |
| 1878 | 1st Commercial Telephone Exchange |
| 1878 | Edison Electric Founded by Thomas Alva Edison |
| 1879 | F.W. Woolworth Opened First Store |
| 1880 | |
| 1886 | American Federation of Labor Formed |
| 1888 | George Eastman Perfects the Kodak Camera |
| 1890 | |
| 1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1896 | 1st Motion Picture Shown on a Public Screen |
| 1900 | |
| 1900 | Olds Co. Begins Mass-Producing Automobiles |
| 1900 | International Ladies Garment Workers Union Founded |
| 1903 | Wright Brothers Make First Flight |
| 1904 | U.S. Takes Over Construction of the Panama Canal |
| 1908 | Ford Introduces the Model T |
| 1910 | |
| 1911 | Supreme Court Order Breakup of Standard Oil |
| 1914 | Panama Canal Opens |
| 1920 | |
| 1929 | Great Stock Crash |
| 1930 | |
| 1930 | 1st U.S. Supermarket, King Kullen, Opens |
| 1934 | FDR Signs Bill for Federal Housing Administration |
| 1935 | 1st DC-3 Flight |
| 1936 | Hoover Dam Completed |
| 1939 | 1st Commercial Television Broadcast |
| 1939 | Social Security Administration approves the 1st unemployment check |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | The Jeep, built by Willys, makes its debut |
| 1944 | FDR Signs G.I. Bill of Rights |
| 1948 | Gold Discovered in California |
| 1950 | |
| 1955 | Disneyland Opens |
| 1958 | Eisenhower Signs Act Creating Nasa |
| 1958 | BOA Launches First Credit Card |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | 20,000 New England Shoe Workers Went on Strike and Got Higher Wages |
| 1963 | Equal Pay for Equal Work |
| 1965 | Intelsat 1 Goes into Service |
| 1965 | President Johnson Signs Medicare into Law |
| 1970 | |
| 1971 | Southwest Airlines Begins Flying |
| 1973 | Federal Express Begins Operations |
| 1974 | President Ford Signs EUSA into Law |
| 1975 | Wall Street Fixed Commission Established |
| 1977 | Volker Becomes Fed Chairman |
| 1979 | Three Mile Island Disaster |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | U.S. Government Bails Out Chrysler |
| 1987 | Black Monday Crash |
| 1990 | |
| 1994 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took Effect |
| 2000 | |
