13 colonies

By ArtemMelikyan

  • The First Settlement

    The First Settlement
    In 1585, Queen Elizabeth allowed Walter Raleigh to send over 100 men from England to Roanoke Island to make a settlement.

  • The Lost Colony

    The Lost Colony
    John White and Simon Fernandez left Roanoke Island to get more supplies. They arrived in England to find out Spain had invaded England. After 2 years White came back to Roanoke Island, but nobody was there! The word “CROATOAN” was carved on a tree. They called the settlement “The Lost Colony”.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    In 1607 a group of 100 men landed on the banks of Virginia’s James River. Their leader, John Smith, ordered to build a fort protection. They established Jamestown, America’s first English colony.

  • Pocahontas saved John Smith

    Pocahontas saved John Smith
    Chief Powhatan wanted to kill Catipan Smith, but Pocahontas rushed in and asked father not to kill him.
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html

  • First tobacco plantation

    First tobacco plantation
    John Rolfe, a colonist from Jamestown, was the first colonist to grow tobacco in America. He arrived in Virginia with tobacco seeds that he bought earlier on a voyage to Trinidad, and in 1612 he harvested his first crop for sale on the European market.
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html

  • Slavery in America

    Slavery in America
    Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves to the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
    In the 17th and 18th centuries, black slaves worked on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html

  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses
    First representative assembly, the House of Burgesses, held in America is elected in Jamestown.
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html

  • Thanksgiving celebration

    Thanksgiving celebration
    The first Thanksgiving celebration is held in the autumn for three days between the Pilgrims and members of the Wampanoag tribe, who had helped them settle and plant the colony's land.
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html

  • History of New York

    History of New York
    Peter Minuit, one of eight men left by Dutch explorers headed for the Albany area from the ship New Netherland on Manhattan Island, buys the island from the Man-a-hat-a Islands for $24. Later a town New Amsterdam was founded there, after that it was renamed New York

  • Foundation of Harvard

    Foundation of Harvard
    Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Source: https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1600.html