History Timeline Project

By Deviniscool99

  • First 105 Colonists sent by the London Company arrive in England

  • Colonists founded Jamestown

  • John Smith took control of Jamestown and build a fort

  • More colonists arrive

  • 60 Colonists are the only ones alive

  • Mayflower left England

  • Samoset goes to colonist settlement

  • 41 male passengers aboard mayflower sign mayflower compact

  • Colonists kill Powhatan leader

  • English crown canceled the company’s charter

  • A fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonist left England.

  • Charles issued a charter to Calvert’s son.

  • A group of 200 English Catholics came to Maryland.

  • Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts to find Connecticut.

  • Hooker wrote Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

  • Protestants begin moving to Maryland

  • General Court became a two-house legislature.

  • General Courts of Massachusetts issued an order that a school be founded in every township of 50 families.

  • Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida.

  • English captured the undefended colony of New Amsterdam

  • English Conquest began

  • King Charles II granted charter to William Penn to begin a colony west of New Jersey

  • Duke Of York sold Penn a region to the south of PennsylvaniaDuke Of York sold Penn a region to the south of Pennsylvania

  • James II became king of England

  • James II united the northern colonies under one government

  • King James passed the English Bill of Rights

  • Community conflicts in New England involved witchcraft trials.

  • Enslaved Africans became the main source of labor.

  • Trade restrictions continued

  • English merchants were trading around the world.

  • Revolutions in both religious and non religious thought transformed western world.

  • Enlighten movement was put into affect.

  • Carolina split into North and South Carolina

  • Proprietary government was overthrown

  • Crown purchased North and South America.

  • 20,000 enslaved Africans were living in South Carolina

  • Ministers began holding revivals.

  • The Great Awakening began

  • King George II granted a charter to Oglethorpe

  • Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah.

  • Officials arrested John Peter Zenger for printing false statements.

  • Molasses Act put into affect.

  • British government made Georgia a royal colony

  • Fighting erupted with the British military.

  • Washington was defeated.

  • Fighting began in Europe, leading up to the Seven Year’s War.

  • Pontiac’s Rebellion began.

  • Britain and France signed the Treaty of Paris.