Colonial Timeline

  • Period: 1483 to 1554

    Martin Luther's Reform

    Theologist, monk and priest. He started the Reform through the 95 thesis that lasted throughout the 16th century.
  • 1581

    French Protestants

  • Birth of Pocahontas

    When she was 13 she saved Captain Smith, and named the first colony “Virginia”.
  • First British Expedition

    The expedition set out on December 20th to colonize Virginia
  • 1st Colony Jamestown

    John Smith left to check on Shakespeare’s work, then he returned to
    England.
  • First African slaves brought to America

    House of Burguesse were the first family to do this.
  • Puritans settled down Plymouth, MA

    The Mayflower company settles down in New England beacuse of John Smith
  • Massachusetts

    Founded by John Winthrop, and inhabited by puritans.
  • First Thanksgiving

  • New Hampshire

    Building ships, livestock farming and clothing (garments)
  • New York

    The Duke of York (Manhatan Island)
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    English settlement on the east coast founded by John Winthrop
  • Maryland

    Charles I wife, Queen Henriette Marica
  • First Public School in Boston, MA

  • Harvard University founded by Robert Williams.

    Taken from Massachusetts to Rhode Island
  • Connecticut

    Only puritans, no other religion allowed
  • Rhode Island (R.I)

    Roger Williams & Adriaen Block
  • Fisrt Printing Press

  • Delaware

    Peter Minuit & New Sweden Company
  • 1st “Bay Psalm” book

  • Puritans War

    They fought England King to have a society based on God’s law
  • North Carolina

    Virginians
  • South Carolina

    8 nobles in a royal charter by Charles II
  • New Amsterdam is renamed to New York

    English were the ones who changed it,
  • New Jersey

    Sir George Carteret & Lord Berkeley
  • Death of Pocahontas

    Tuberculosis
  • King Philips War

    War between natives and puritans.
  • Pennsylvania

    William Penn, Lake Erie
  • 1st US Newspaper in Boston

  • Period: to

    Benjamin Franklin's writing career

    Enlightement Spirit
  • Georgia

    James Oglethorpe
  • Period: to

    French-Indian War

  • Sugar Act

    Passed by British government
  • Stamp Act

    Passed by British Government
  • Declaratory Act

    Colonials decided to rebel officially
  • British Stamp Act

    British Government decided to overtax colonial goods.
  • 7 years war

  • Boston Massacre

    Crowd harasing soldiers, then shots are fired and 5 people were killed.
  • Boston Tea Party

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

    Colonies fought against British empire's rule
  • Independence Day

    Declaration of independence was signed by the governing people of each colony.
  • United States Constitution was signed

  • Virginia State

    Tobacco and farming.