major events of colonials

  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    eurpean culumnvatsion

    the proper envent
  • Oct 8, 1492

    clumbis encounter the new world

    clumbis sell for spanish empire in encouter the new world for the first time.
  • Sep 9, 1518

    french began fur trade with indians

    started the trad route with the aztec empire in mecico in 1518 1519 he found incredible
  • Mar 29, 1530

    coronados expedition

    cornoado and his men had 240 mounted soilder 60 foot soldiers and 800 slaves they cattle northward to arizona and new mexico and went to the place that is now kansas
    http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CO062.html
  • Jun 9, 1534

    jacqus cartier sailed up the st lawrence river

    when french navigator jacques cartier left france by boat in april 1534 the king ordered him to find gold spicces( which were valuable at the time)
  • May 21, 1541

    hernando de soto

    he explore and settle florida. he now found central georgia and carolinas tennesse ississppi alabama and arkansas
  • Sep 8, 1565

    spanish expedition established st agustine in flordia

    pedro menendez se aviles landed on the shore of what is now called matanzas bay and began founding of presidios of san agustine florida. built on the sitr of an ancient native american village
  • roanoke colony

    108 men went on shore ashore ar roaknoke island their leader likw huy was sir walter ralieight they built a fort
  • jamestown virginia founded

    early american colony of jamestown on may 14 a group roughtly 100 member os a joint venture called virginia compsny founded
  • john rolfe 1585 1622

    he interdoced native tobacco was to harsh for european taste planted seed from thr west indies and producced a crop which was more fragnant and sweet than native tobacco
  • first african slaves

    the arrival of the 20 and oddafrican captives aboard a dutch man of war ship on this day august 20
  • plymouth massachusett

    during theof king james i around 100 english men and women many of them members of the english separatist church set sail for new world abored the mayflower
  • samuel de champlain

    egar to capitalize on the profitable fur in the region charles
  • marquette jacques

    sailed down the mississippi down to the great lakes and trade lut
  • beaver wars

    wa the indian war when the war stared and the conflict ended
  • peublo revolt

    the indians who had lived and worshiped independenlty for centuries were forced to abandon their religions a dopt christanity
  • the pennsylvania colony

    it was founded by william pen and other colonists
  • south carolina

    province of caroline was founded in 1663 when king chales2 gave the land to eight noble ment
  • georgia colony founded

    twenty one other men eastblished that no man was to make profit off the settle ment once the charter was finalized the men brough it to the attentions