Colonial America Timeline

By lordkrish3

  • 1607

    1607
    The Virginia Company founds a colony at Jamestown.

  • 1612

    1612
    John Rolfe begins growing tobacco in Virginia.

  • 1619

    1619
    The first representative government in North America is created when the House of Burgesses meets. The first slaves arrive in Virginia.

  • 1620

    1620
    The Mayflower ship transported 102 English Puritans and Separatists, the Pilgrim Fathers, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a long journey of 66 days

  • 1622

    1622-1624 The Powhatan Wars, battles and conflicts in Virginia between colonists and American Native Indians

  • 1624

    1624 Virginia was made a royal colony

  • 1628

    Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and many Puritans continued to settle in the region

  • 1630

    In the spring of 1630, John Winthrop led a fleet of 11 vessels and 700 passengers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Great Migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1620 and 1640. Many came as Indentured Servants

  • 1636

    Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

  • 1637

    The Pequot War - Native Indians of Connecticut and Rhode Island were defeated by the colonists