1600-1700

  • Britain's first adventure

    Bartholomew Gosnold discovers the New England coast
  • new world

    The joint-stock company Virginia Company of London is founded and granted a Royal Charter by James I to settle in the New World.
  • Jamestown

    The first English settlement was built
  • Habitation deQuébec

    Samuel de Champlain created it.
  • New Mexico

    Spain established in Santa Fe
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    Smallpox

    it killed more than 90 percents Massachusetts Bay Indians
  • First slavery from Africa

    They were transported to Jamstown.
  • House of Burgesses

    the first democratically elected legislative body in English North America
  • Mayflower Compact

  • Indian massacre of 1622

    in Virginia
  • royal colony

    Virginia became royal colony.
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    founded
  • New Sweden

    Pequot War ended and Pequot War established New Sweden.
  • Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony

    it was signed and the crown recognized the Virginia Assembly.
  • French and Iroquois Wars

    full warfare.
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    English Civil Wars

  • Period: to

    Kieft's War

  • Period: to

    Third Anglo–Powhatan War

  • Maryland Toleration Act

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    Peach Tree War

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    Esopus Wars

  • Halfway Covenant

  • Second Anglo-Dutch War

    English captured New Amsterdam.
  • The Duke's Laws

  • Ceded by New Netherland

    They ceded Treaty of Breda to England.
  • Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

  • Blue Laws

  • Treaty of Westminster

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    King Philip's War

  • Declaration of the People of Virginia

    Bacon wrote it and the Bacon's Rebellion happened in Virginia.
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    the Nine Years' War

  • Toleration Act 1688

    background: The Boston Revolt and Leisler's Rebellion
  • The Treaty of Ryswick

  • The Wool Act