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Oct 12, 1492
•Columbus "discovers" America
Colubas reached the Carribbean and the island of San Salvador on this day. This is important because his discovery brought North America to the attention of Europe.Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Columbus's journal of his first voyage to America has been lost. -
Jamestown Colony created
It was founded by the London Company (later to become the Virginia Company), It was formed in 1634 as one of the original eight shires of Virginia. Jamestown was the capital of the Colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699. Jamestowm was located on the James River in what is currently James City County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. -
Plymouth Colony created 1620–1691
The first settlement was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped the colony's success.The colony played a central role in King Philip's War, Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of people who later came to be known as the "Pilgrims" -
Massachusetts Bay Colony created
was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century.Plans for the first permanent European settlements on the east coast of North America began in late 1606.The London Company covered a more southern territory. The Plymouth Company covered the more northern area. -
New Amsterdam becomes New York
was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. It later became New York City.
By 1609, the harbor and the river had been discovered.
The town was founded in 1625 by Willem Verhulst who, together with his council, selected Manhattan Island as the place for permanent settlement by the Dutch West India Company. -
Albany Congress meets
also known as the Albany Conference, was a meeting of representatives of seven of the British North American colonies in 1754. Representatives met daily at Albany, New York from June 19 to July 11 to discuss better relations with the Indian tribes and common defensive measures against the French.It was the first time that all the colonies had been together. The delegates spent most of their time debating Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of union. -
William Penn creates Pennsylvania
Penn decided to appeal directly to the King and the Duke.
Penn proposed a solution which would solve the dilemma.
That same year, two hundred settlers from the towns; in nearby Buckinghamshire arrived, and founded the town of Burlington. George Fox himself had made a journey to America to verify the potential of further expansion of the early Quaker settlements. -
George Washington assaults Fort Duquesne
February 17, 1754. Dinwiddie ordered Washington, and two hundred men to proceed from Virginia to the Forks.
On April 17, a French force of about five hundred men. With Washington and his men having not yet arrived, and outnumbered by more than twelve to one, the English surrendered the fort. -
The French & Indian War concludes
1754–1763.In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a dispute over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
