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James Town
In 1607
First parliament the English settled in North America -
Virgina house of Burgesses
In 1619
Legislative assembly -
Plymouth Rock
In 1620 traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims. -
Mayflower Compact
In 1620 Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
In 1639 The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. -
Toleration Act
In 1649
Was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. -
Bacons Rebellion
In 1676 Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
Glorious Revolution
In 1688-1689 was the overthrow of King James II of England -
English Bill of Rights
In 1689 An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. -
Salem Witch Trails
In 1692 More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted -
John Peter Zenger
In 1697 Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal. He was accused of libel in 1734 by William Cosby, the governor of New York, but the jury acquitted Zenger, who became a symbol for freedom of the press. -
Albany Plan of Union
In 1754 The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
French and Indian war
In 1754-1763 comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763 , King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
In 1765 The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
In 1765 The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Declatory Act
In 1766 declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
In 1770 was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Tea Act
In 1773 granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1773 he Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty -
1st Continental Congress
In 1774 The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
2nd continental congress
In 1775 The Second Continental Congress met as agreed on May 5, 1775. This was after the battles at Lexington and Concord on April 19th. -
Declaration of independence
In 1776 But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). -
Treaty of paris
In 1783 signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
