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Puebloan Population
Puebloan population is at 60,000 -
English Advance on North America
England stands ready to assert dominance on North America -
French traders in America
French traders establish Port Royal in Nova Scotia and start trade expeditions as far down as Cape Cod. -
English Colonies
There is no permanent English colony in North America at the time Queen Elizabeth dies -
English peace with the Spanish
King James makes peace with Spain in 1604, privateering no longer held out the promise of cheap wealth -
England joins the American fray
James I approves the formation of the Virginia Company. -
The English found Jamestown
The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery sail forty miles up the James River (named it for the English king) in present-day Virginia (named it for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) and settle on just such a place. -
Quebec Founded
Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec, which later becomes New France. -
The Dutch commission Henry Hudson
The Dutch commission Englishman Henry Hudson to find the mythical Northwest passage. Hudson fails, but found the Hudson River and claims modern-day New York for the Dutch. -
English Colonists to Jamestown
Four hundred settlers arrive at Jamestown -
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Winter of 1609-1610
The overwhelmed colony enteres a desperate “starving time” -
First permanent European settlement
Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement, was founded by the Spanish. -
Summer of 1610
Only 60 settlers survive at Jamestown -
The Marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe -
Jamestown Statistics
80 percent of all English immigrants who have arrived in Jamestown have perished -
English Colony Cash Crop Established
John Rolfe crosses tobacco strains from Trinidad and Guiana and plants Virginia’s first tobacco crop -
First English Colony Cash Crop Export
The colony sends its first cargo of tobacco back to England -
English Attempt to Gather Laborers
Any person who migrated to Virginia would automatically receive fifty acres of land and any immigrant whose passage they paid would entitle them to fifty acres more -
House of Burgesses Established and First African Slaves in the English Colonies
The Virginia Company establishes the House of Burgesses and a Dutch slave ship sells twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists -
New Netherlands beginnings
The Netherlands charters the Dutch West India Company and establishes colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. -
The Dutch obtain Manhattan
Peter Minuit "buys" Manhattan from the Munsee Indians. -
First Dutch imported slaves
The Dutch colony imports eleven company owned slaves amid labor shortages. Slaves are tasked with building New Amsterdam. -
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Spanish mission system expands
The Spanish mission system spreads to the Apalachee territory in Florida's panhandle. -
First Dutch African Marriage
The Dutch colony's first African marriage occurs -
Dutch African Slave Population
There are now about 500 African slaves in the Dutch colony -
Dutch African Slaves
The Dutch colony has the largest slave population on the continent -
Puebloan Population
Puebloan population is at 18,000 -
Spanish New Mexico Population
Spanish New Mexico population is at 3,000 -
French Protestant emigration
France criminalizes Protestantism and Huguenots (French Protestants) try to emigrate to New France. Non-Catholics are forbidden in New France.