1600-1700

By madisonbristow

  • Three ships landed in Jamestown

    After three ships docked in the Jamestown area, they established the first English settlement in the United States.

  • The discovery of Lake Champlain

    Samuel Champlain battles an Iroquois party in his exploration of the New World, and discovers Lake Champlain.

  • Pocahontas and John Rolfe

    John Rolfe and Pocahontas get married in Jamestown, John brings tobacco seeds to Pocahontas' colony.

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox epidemic wipes out 90% of the Native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area.

  • First Permanent Mission

    This is when the first permanent mission was made in San Bernardino. It was established at Awátobi in 1629.

  • Oneof Winthrop's ships leaves England

    The first vessels of Winthrop's eleven ship fleet, eventually totaling seven hundred aboard, leaves England for the Puritan colony already established in Salem, this is the place where the Salem Witch Trials happens later on in the 1600's.

  • Maryland

    Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony promoting religious tolerance.

  • Harvard College

    Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • First printed book

    The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book.

  • Witchcraft

    Witchcraft is made a capital crime in English law.

  • Legalization of slavery

    Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and recognized in the American colonies.

  • Start of the Peach Tree war

    Peach Tree War begins with attack on New Amsterdam and Pavonia along Hudson (North) River by Susquehannock Indians

  • Hurricane destroys crops and homes

    A large hurricane ravages southeast Virginia, with twelve days of rain, causing damage to plantation homes and crops.

  • Exploration of the Midwest

    Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore midwest states along the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to the Arkansas River.

  • Indian War ends

    The Indian War between the Narragansett Indians and the colonists in New England ends.

  • Pennsylvania is established

    The colony of Pennsylvania is established when William Penn signs a treaty with the Delaware Indians and pays for Pennsylvania lands.

  • Plymouth colony rejoins the Bay Colony

    The Plymouth colony, which had remained independent since its founding in 1620, joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • More French settlements

    Additional French settlements would be established in Mississippi and Louisiana.