Colonial era timeline

By trevorlyle23
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus encountered the New World for the first time date

    Columbus and his men saild across Atlantic Ocean to explore America
  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence

    Cartier and men went to explore the northern American lands for money, then they found gulf of St.Lawrence
  • Apr 10, 1540

    Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas

    Coronado took a long journey from mexico to kansas also he stop at texas and oklahoma
  • Sep 10, 1540

    Hernando de Soto’s expedition of the Southeast

    Hernando de Soto and his mean explored a territory called Ichisi
  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish establish St. Augustine, Florida

    Pedro landed on the shore and discovered St. Augustin, Flordia

  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

    Sir Walter was the first British colony of Roanoke it had 100 householders.

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

    John reached to Virginia to make tobacco the introduced it to the people

  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

    Samuel and his man exploring North America and establishing the city of Quebec

  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

    English men and boys head to North America to start a settlement. They came across Virginia and named they town called James town after the king

  • Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe

    Juan founded Santa Fe

  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

    Spanish ship made a trade to the Africans to give them food if they would set sail to Virginia to be slaves

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

    King James sent men and women to set sail to the new world to get gold the ship made it to the shore they discovered Massachusetts they found a rock and called Plymouth.

  • South Carolina colony founded

    King Charles II told his men to set sail the came across now is today North and South Carolina they were one colony

  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi

    Marquette ,Joliet, and five frenchmen went on a paddled boat and came across Lake Michigan, they found Wisconsin River they folled that and came across Mississippi river.

  • Beaver Wars

    the war was also called French and Iroquois war, it was the most terrifying war it was a blood bath.

  • French began fur trade with Indians

    French began to trade fur in North American to the Indians then it grew all over

  • The Pueblo Revolt

    Pueblo and his men take off and discovered American Southwest

  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

    European set sailed and came across Pennsylvania and found Native Americans

  • Georgia Colony founded

    King Geroge II told his men to set sail the new world and they came across now is today Georgia they got that name from there king