1492 In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

1585 Fifteen Eighty-Five the English crossed the sea to find their colony lost! 1588 The Spanish Armada met its fate In Fifteen Hundred Eighty-Eight.

1607 When Sixteen-O-Seven comes around, The English settle at Jamestown.

1620 Sixteen Twenty was a great year, you see, Pilgrims started the Plymouth Colony.

1630 In Sixteen Thirty or so they say, Puritans land in Massachusetts Bay.

1664 In sixty-four the middle began, when the Duke took over New Amsterdam.

1754 In Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-Four, began the French and Indian War.

1770 Tensions with England in Seventy spread In Boston a “massacre,” five people dead.

HISTORY DATES CHANT

1773 Colonists dumped many boxes of tea into Boston harbor in Seventy-Three.

1774 In Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Four, The First Congress met for taxes no more.

1775 At Concord the British were on the run, in Seventy-Five the war had begun.

1776 In Seventeen Seventy-Six they met, to declare independence, their boldest move yet!

1783 The Treaty of Paris, one-seven-eight-three, officially set the colonies free.

1787 In Seventeen Eighty Seven let’s mention the Constitutional Convention.

1789 In Seventeen Eighty Nine begun, the Presidency with Washington.

1803 Louisiana Purchase was bought in Eighteen-O-Three; just look what we got!

1805 Lewis and Clark were known as the best; In Eighteen-O-Five they explored the great west.

1812 In Eighteen Twelve verse England we fought to defend and expand the new land we’d just bought.