Colonial Era Timeline

By Brittany Tanner
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus encounterd the new world

  • Sep 11, 1518

    French began fir trade with indians

  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier salied the St. Lawrence

  • Apr 10, 1538

    Hernsndo de Solo's expedition of the southeast

  • Sep 11, 1542

    Coronado's expedetion from Mexico to Kansas

  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish establish St. Augustine, Florida

  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

  • Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe

  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

  • beaver wars started

  • South Carolina colony founded

  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi

  • the pueblo Revolt

  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

  • beaver wars ended

  • Georgia colony founded