North American colonization

By jhaynes80
  • Period: Sep 8, 1492 to

    European Colonization

  • Oct 14, 1492

    Columbus Encounters the New World for the first time.

    Christopher Columbus, sailing the Spanish Empire, discovers the new world for the first time.
  • Sep 8, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence

    When French navigator Jacques Cartier left France by boat in April 1534, the king ordered him to find gold, spices (which were valuable at that time), and a water passage from France to Asia.
    Two months later, on June 9, Cartier sailed into the waters of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada.
  • Sep 8, 1539

    Hernando de Soto's expedition of the southeast

    This began his three-year odyssey through the Southeastern North American continent, from which de Soto and a large portion of his men would not return.
  • Sep 8, 1540

    Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas

    Coronado had hoped to reach the mythical Seven Cities of Gold. His expedition discovered the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.
  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish establish St. Augustine's

    On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin. Later the settlement would be called St. Augustine, Florida.

  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

    The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement.

  • Juan de Onate found Santa Fe

    On April 30, 1598, he claimed all of the territory across the river crossing to the north for the Spanish Empire.

  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began,... this was the first colony in the British Empire.Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607.

  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

    Samuel Champlain found New France and Quebec city in 1608.

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

    In 1612, Rolfe began experimenting with West Indian tobacco in an attempt to find a profitable export for the struggling colony. The first shipment was sent to England in 1617.

  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

    One stormy day in August of 1619 a Dutch manof-war with about 20 Africans on board entered port at the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Little is known of these newly arrived people: the first Africans to set foot on the North American continent. At this time the slave trade between Africa and the English colonies had not yet been established, and it is unlikely that the 20 or so newcomers became slaves upon their arrival.

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

    Plymouth (historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Plymouth holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown." Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims,

  • South Carolina colony founded

    South Carolina, part of the original Province of Carolina, was founded in 1663 when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as The Lords Proprietors.

  • Beaver Wars

    The Beaver Wars—also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars—encompass a series of conflicts fought in the mid-17th century in eastern North America.

  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the mississippi

    In May, 1673, Marquette, Joliet, and five other Frenchmen paddled across Lake Michigan to present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin, then up the Fox River to what is now Portage, Wisconsin. From there they carried their canoes across land to the Wisconsin River, where their two Indian guides deserted them for fear of what lay ahead. The expedition went down the Wisconsin River until, one day they came upon a majestic stream, the Mississippi River

  • French begin fur trade with Indians

    The North American fur trade was the industry and activities related to the acquisition, trade, exchange, and sale of animal furs in the North American continent.

  • The Pueblo Revolt

    The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, also known as Popé's Rebellion was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico.

  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

    The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II.

  • Georgia Colony founded

    Georgia's Trustees, Oglethorpe and the twenty-one other men, established that no man was to make profit off the settlement. Once the charter was finalized the men brought it to the attention of King George II. In 1732, King George II, under the persuasion of Oglethorpe, signed off on the last of the 13 colonies.