1600-1700

By BDuff

  • Jamestown

    First permanent, english settlement.

  • Henery Hudson

    commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, leaves London for his first successful voyage to the Americas, where he will explore the Delaware Bay and Hudson River.

  • Sir Walter Raleigh

    Sets sail for Guyana promising to respect Spanish rights in the region. Contrary to orders, his men destroyed the Spanish village of San Tome de Guyana.

  • Sir Walter Raleigh

    Raleigh returns to England and is executed, for treasonous actions against King James I originally assigned to him in 1603.

  • First enslaved persons

    Arriving in English North America. Twenty Africans captured by Portuguese traders of enslaved people are brought to Virginia on a Dutch Man-of-War battleship.

  • The House of Burgesses

    The first representative assembly

  • John Carver

    One of the Mayflower pilgrims, is named the first governor of Plymouth Colony.

  • Plymouth Colony

    The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts was established by the Pilgrims.

  • Pennsylvania

    The founding of Pennsylvania, about 40,000 square miles, was confirmed to William Penn under the Great Seal on