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Queen Elizabeth dies with no permanent English North American colony being established.
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King James makes peace with Spain
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The Charter of 1606 or the First Charter of Virginia assigned land rights to colonists. Three ships carrying 105 colonist led by Christopher Newport sailed for the new world.
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Settlers from Europe arrive, sailing up the James River (named for King James I) to establish Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) as a colony.
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Under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain
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Tasked with finding the Northwest Passage, he found the Hudson River instead and staked a claim for modern day New York for the Dutch.
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Santa Fe was founded by Pedro de Peralta and named for Francis of Assisi.
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Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas marries John Rolfe easing British relations with her tribe. She later moves to England.
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John Rolfe crosses strains of tobacco from Trinidad and Guiana.
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Jamestown sends its first cargo of tobacco back to England
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Gave migrants land to encourage settlement in the 13 colonies, used mainly in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland.
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The Virginia Company imports its first slaves
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The Virginia Company establishes the House of Burgesses. This was a representative body of white landowners that first met in Jamestown.
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Puritans set sail for the New World. This migration would last for 20 years.
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The Netherlands charter the Dutch West India Company
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Powhatan is succeeded by his brother, Opechancanough who killed over 350 settlers.
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Modern day New York formed on the island of Manhattan by the Dutch West India Company
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Peter Minuit "bought" Manhattan from the Munsee. 11 slaves were imported due to the failed patroon system
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John Winthrop gives his speech outlining the expectations of the newly formed Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Charles I set aside a tract of about 12 million acres at the Northern tip of Chesapeake Bay to establish a second American Colony.
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Originally settled by the Dutch in 1614, English settlers came later with Reverend Thomas Hooker
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Land was given to Charles I's friend, the 2nd Lord Baltimore who believed that Protestants and Catholics could live together peacefully.
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Radical Williams, banned from Massachusetts Bay colony, purchased land from the Narangansett Indians and established the 1st white settlement near Providence.
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Roger Williams created Providence negotiating for the land with Narrangansett sachems, Canonicus and Miantonomi
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Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonists fought against the Pequot Indians to settle Pequot territory. The war would last until September 21, 1638.
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The Bay Psalm Book is printed
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Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonists fought against the Pequot Indians to settle Pequot territory. The war would last until September 21, 1638.
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Strained relations between Charles I and Parliament over an Irish insurrection leads to civil war. The first was settled with Oliver Cromwell's victory at the Battle of Naseby in 1645 and the 2nd ended with Charles' defeat at the Battle of Preston in 1649. Charles' son invaded Scotland in 1650, Cromwell ended the "wars of three kingdoms" in 1651.
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This was to distinguish white women from African women.
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Also known as the Wappinger War was between settlers of the nascent colony in New Netherland and the native Lenape in modern day New York.
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Rhode Islands' first governing document obtained by Roger Williams
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Never having a charter, it was founded in 1637, settled in 1638 and combined with Milford and Guilford in 1643 naming founder Theophilus Eaton governor.
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Parliament won the civil war in England against Charles I. Charles I was executed making England a republic and protectorate under Oliver Cromwell.
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Puritans in Maryland revolted, setting up a new government prohibiting Catholicism and Anglicanism.
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Parliament leveled an economic embargo on rebelling colonies.
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Navigation Act of 1651-compelled merchants in every colony to ship goods directly to England in English ships.
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Providence settlers’ elected president and council passed a law abolishing chattel slavery.
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Driven off the island of Hispaniola, the British sailed for the weakly defended island of Jamaica and the Spanish retreated inland.
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Conflicts between the indigenous Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians and colonialist New Netherlanders in modern Ulster County, New York
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by Samuel Green and Maramaduke Johnson
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Virginia law stated that an enslaved woman’s children inherited the “condition” of their mother sparking other colonies to do the same.
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The Eliot Bible was printed in the Natick dialect of the Algonquin tribes.
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Charter issued by Charles II establishing Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as a royal colony.
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Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to the British.
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John Locke coauthored the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina explicitly legalizing slavery from the beginning
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Charles Town (Charleston) founded by three ships of colonists from Barbados at the mouth of the Ashley River
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During the 3rd Anglo-Dutch war but gave it up the next year in a peace treaty.
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1675-1676 John Sassomon’s body was found under the ice of a pond leading to the trial and execution of three warriors of Metacom in June with retaliation of the Wampanoags killing 9 English colonists in Swansea. The Indian uprising Indian fought against the encroachments of the New England Colonies resulting in ending Indian power in New England and slaying Metacom
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The English attacked the Narrangansett of Rhode Island in December.
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Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia-grew out of tensions between Native Americans and English settlers as well as tensions between wealthy English landowners and poor settlers pushing west into Indian territory sparking the Susquehannock War.
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Puebloan religious leader, Pope led groups in a 4-day siege, razing the Spanish countryside and besieging Santa Fe.
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William Nuthead set up a printing shop but was forbidden completion of projects by Governor
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Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes allowing protestants the freedom to practice their religion in France thus criminalizing protestantism.
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James II established the Dominion of New England consolidating the New England colonies, New York and New Jersey.
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Sir Edmund Andros forced colonists into military service for a campaign against the Maine Indians
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Members of Society of Friends in Germantown outside Philadelphia signed petition protesting slavery among fellow Quakers.
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Protestant Whigs led a bloodless coup forcing King James II into exile and elevated his daughter, Mary and her husband, William of Orange to the Monarchy. This was closely followed by the American colonists.
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Parliament passed a Bill of Rights curtailing the power of the monarchy and cemented Protestantism in England
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Colonial Massachusetts became 1st place in Western World to issue paper bills to be used as money-bills of credit
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Lords Proprietor founded province of Carolina.
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1692-1693 Salem Town, Salem Village, Ipswich, and Andover tried women and men as witches.
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Spanish king issued the Decree of Sanctuary granted freedom to slaves fleeing the English colonies if they converted to Catholicism and swore an oath of loyalty to Spain.
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Hooker led a hundred people and livestock to settle Newton (modern day Hartford)
