Early American Writing Timeline

By laura_garcia
  • Sep 6, 1492

    Columbus's first Writings

    Wrote letters and journals recording his four voyages to america.
  • Sep 6, 1542

    Alvares Nunes

    Cabeza de vaca, La Relacion . describes the landscape and people he encountered wich were new to Europe.

  • A Brief and True Report of The New Found Land of Virginia

    A Brief and True Report of The New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Harriot was published.

  • puritans

    Many settlers were puritans.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    The first permanent colony was established in virginia and was named Jamestown.

  • William Bradford

    describes his journey across the atlantic and pilgrims settlement in of Plumouth Plantation.

  • Native americans

    took the first ship they saw, for a walking land.

  • The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up In America

    The first work by a Northern American woman , Anne Bradstreets, to be published was The Tenth Muse Lately Spring Up In America.

  • Enlightment ideas and Puritan values

    Enlightment ideas and Puritan values contributed to the countrys thirst for independence.

  • English Colonies

    English colonies strtched all along the atlantic coast.

  • Frech and Indian War

    France allied with the native americans to drive out the british. The war was from 1759-1763.

  • Revolutionary war

    colonies defeated Britain and declared themselves free and Independent.

  • Constiution

    The constitution was aproved by the 13 colonies and the united states of america was born.

  • Bay Psalm Book

    The first book issued in the North American colonies was Bay Psalm Book.

  • American cause

    two thousand pamplets were published defining the American cause againts Great Britain.