North carolina colony

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  • 1524

    discovered

    Giovanni Da Verrazano explores the North carolina coast

  • first colony

    The first British colony in the new world is founded on Roanoke Island.

  • First English child born

    Virginia Dare was born the first English so to be born in the New World.

  • Charter

    King Charles II signs a charter making eight of his supporters.

  • Tuscarora war

    war begins between the Tuscarora Indians and white colonists and their Native American allies.

  • hard economic times

    hard economic times in Ulster,Ireland,lead to the first wave of scotch-Irish immigration to America.

  • settlers

    Moravian settlers from Bethlehem,Pennsylvania, arrive in wachovia, North Carolina.

  • French and Indian war starts

    The French and Indian war (1754-1763), fought between the French and British, their respective colonists, and their various Native American allies, begins.

  • Independence

    North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress at Halifax authorizes North Carolina delegates in the continental congress to "Concur in Interdependence" From Britain.