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Jamestown founded. The founding of Jamestown was Americas first permanent English colony in Virginia.
The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America -
First African slaves
20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., aboard the English privateer ship White Lion. -
Pilgrims establish colony in Massachusetts
The pilgrims were fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican church and left to establish a settlement where they could worship freely in the New World. -
Massachusetts Bay founded
They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. -
First Navigation Act passed
In 1651, the British Parliament, in the first of what became known as the Navigation Acts, declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
Bacon's Rebellion,the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and while white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia.
Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 was the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia. -
Massachusetts passes a law ordering all Roman Catholic priest to leave the colony within three months.
To prevent the spread of Catholicism into Massachusetts Bay, the General Court banned Jesuit priests from entering the colony. -
Delaware Colony granted charter
The final document is a “Charter” deed from Charles II to James, the Duke of York for the entire territory now known as Delaware -
East & West Jersey become Province of new Jersey (royal colony)
under the rule of Queen Anne, the two sections of the proprietary colony were united, and New Jersey became a royal colony. -
San Antonio, Texas founded by Spanish
A Spanish expedition from Mexico established the Mission San Antonio de Valero. -
Province of Georgia
The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. -
U.S Declaration of Independence Signed
The introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose, to explain the colonists' right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause.