1600 - 1700

By janetfernando
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    1600 - 1700

  • Jamestown

    This was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.

  • New Netherland

    A 17th-century colony of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of North America.

  • The House of Burgess

    The first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia.

  • Jamestown

    The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.

  • Mayflower Compact

    The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England. Before disembarking from their ship, 41 male passengers sign the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that forms the basis of the colony's government.

  • New Amsterdam

    Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

  • Province of Maryland Founded

    The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.

  • Connecticut Colony Founded

    An English colony in North America that became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch.

  • Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Founded

    One of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was an English colony from 1636 until the American Revolution in 1776, when it became the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

  • Pequot War Begins

    The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequots.

  • Pequot War Ends

  • Delaware Colony Founded

    Delaware Colony in the North American Middle Colonies consisted of land on the west bank of the Delaware River Bay.

  • French and Iroquois Wars

    A series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th and 18th centuries in eastern North America.

  • Kieft's War Begins

    Kieft's War, also known as the Wappinger War, was a conflict (1643–1645) between settlers of the nascent colony of New Netherland and the native Lenape population in what would later become the New York metropolitan area of the United States.

  • Third Anglo-Powhatan War Begins

  • Kieft's War Ends

  • Third Anglo-Powhatan War Ends

  • Peach Tree War Begins

    The Peach Tree War, also known as the Peach War, was a large-scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River, centered on New Amsterdam and Pavonia on September 15, 1655.

  • Esopus Wars Begns

    he Esopus Wars were two localized conflicts between the indigenous Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians and colonialist New Netherlanders during the latter half of the 17th century in what is now Ulster County, New York.

  • Peach Tree War Ends

  • Esopus Wars End

  • New Amsterdam

    English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York.

  • New Netherland permanently relinquished to English with Treaty of Westminster

  • King Philip's War Begins

    King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–78 between Native American inhabitants of the New England region of North America versus New England colonists and their Native American allies.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

  • King Philip's War Ends

  • King William's War Begins

    King William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–97), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.

  • King William's War Ends