humanity's 26 dates By danmicc Period: 1607 to 1607 1607: Jamestown founded, first permanent English settlement Period: 1619 to 1619 1619: First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia; House of Burgesses established 1620 1620: Pilgrims land at Plymouth; Mayflower Compact signed 1626 1626: Manhattan purchased by Peter Minuit (New Amsterdam) 1630 1630: Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by Puritans; Boston established 1636 1636: Harvard College founded 1676 1676: Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia 1692 1692: Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts
