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The Virginia Company of London established Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America in Virginia.
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The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
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The House of Burgesses meets for the first time in Virginia.
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Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower
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The Pequot War was an armed conflict 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.
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Armed conflict 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.
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The first settlement and the seat of government for the nascent colony of South Carolina.
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Conflict between the colony of New Netherland and the Wappinger and Lenape Indians. Jun 20, 1675 – Apr 12, 1678
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An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe.