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Sir Walter Raleigh established the failed English colony on Roanoke Island in the Americas
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The first Englishman to land on the New England coast exploring and later naming the Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.
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A joint-stock-company founded and granted a Royal Charter by James I.
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The first permanent English settlement established in southeast Virginia
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English explorer Henry Hudson's first successful voyage to the Americas, later exploring the Delaware Bay and Hudson River.
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Upon the Discovery, Hudson sets sail for America again and discovered Hudson Bay.
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Captain John Smith publishes the first detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Pocahontas marries colonist John Rolfe
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The first representative assembled in America meets for the first time in Virginia.
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First colony established by Pilgrims from England in Massachusetts
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Jamestown is attacked by Powhatan and the colonies begin the plunge into a long war.
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Established by the Dutch West India Company
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Replaced by Charles I.
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The Plymouth Colony for the first time.
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King Charles I signs a royal charter establishing the Massachusetts Bay.
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The Winthrop Fleet, led by John Winthrop.
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The first town government is organized in the city of Dorchester.
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War begins after the death of New England trader John Oldham.
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, describing the government set up by towns.
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Known as the United Colonies of New England, a confederation of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Plymouth, and New Hampshire
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This ended four years of warfare.
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Executed for high treason
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Maryland is allowed to have a bicameral legislature by order of Lord Baltimore.
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Massachusetts general court rules that the territory of Maine lies within the boundaries ending Maine's immediate hopes of independence.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans whip, imprison and banish the first Quakers to arrive in the colony.
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The legislation bars Quakers from holding their services.
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After a royal edict requires the Massachusetts authorities to release imprisoned Quakers and return them to England.
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Lifetime servitude for black slaves.
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After Governor Peter Stuyvesant's surrender to English forces.
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State laws allowing conversion and residence without freeing the slaves
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Hudson's Bay Company is chartered.
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Traveling 2500 miles from Lake Michigan down the Mississippi to the Arkansas River.
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The Massachusetts settlements of Deerfield experience the first of three raids from the Indians
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It begins when King Philip leads an attack in retaliation for the Plymouth colony's execution of three Wampanoag tribe members.
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Sir Edmond Andros makes peace after King Philip was betrayed and killed.
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William Penn receives a charter for land on which he will found Pennsylvania.
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Penn and Native Americans negotiate a peace treaty at Shackamaxon under what is called the Treaty Elm
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This ends the requirement of church membership for voting.
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Limited the number of town meetings in New England, place militia under his direct control, and forced Puritans and Anglicans to worship together in the Old South Church.
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Ordered back to England to stand trial, and the colonies reestablish their previous systems of government.
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Called King William's War. Areas are burned by French and Native Americans and Massachusetts colonists capture Port Royal.
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The second college is founded.
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Massachusetts general court expresses official repentance for the witchcraft trials.
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Brought hostilities between the Abenaki Indians and the Massachusetts colony to an end.
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The Anglo population reaches 275,000.
