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Jan 1, 1492
First Voyage to America
Christopher Columbas set on a voyage to go to Asia to find gold and other goods,later it was discovered that he found the Americas known to them as the "New world" -
Jan 1, 1493
JUAN PONCE DE LEON
Born in 1460 into a noble family in León, Spain, Juan Ponce served as a page in the royal court of Aragon. He later became a soldier, fighting in the Spanish campaign against the Moors in Granada. After that war ended, he may have gone along on the second voyage to the West Indies led by Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage to the New World. Nearly a decade later, he was serving as a captain in the force commanded by Nicolás de Ovando, Spain’s royal governor of the island of Hispaniola (prese -
THE ROANOKE ISLAND COLONY
1590 THE ROANOKE ISLAND COLONY THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN THE NEW WORLD(ALSO KNOWN AS THE LOST COLONY),WAS FOUNDED BY ENGLISH EXPLORER SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN AUGUST 1585.JOHN WHITE,THE GOVERNOR OF ROANOKE ISLAND (WHAT IS NOW THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST) WAS SENT BY RALEIGH ALONG WITH 100 COLONIST ON A SUPPLY-TRIP TO ENGLAND ONLY TO RETURN TO FIND EVERYONE HAD VANISHED.(IT'S STILL AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY WITH A NUMBER OF MYTHS OF WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED). -
JAMESTOWN,VA FOUND
ON MAY, 14 1607, A GROUP OF JUST OVER 100 MEN AND BOYS RECRUITED BY THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON CAME ASHORE AND ESTABLISHED A SETTLEMENT AT JAMESTOWN ISLAND. THEY CONSTRUCTED A PALISADED FORT THERE WITHIN THE TERRITORY OF THE PASPAHEGH INDIANS, WHO WITH OTHER VIRGINIA ISLANDS HAD FREQUENT CONTRACT WITH THE ENGLISH.IN 1619 THE FIRST ENGLISH REPRESENTATIVES LEGISLATIVE BODY IN NORTH AMERICA MET THERE, AND THE FIRST DOCUMENTED AFRICANS ARRIVED. -
The Mayflower sets sail to the New world
The Mayflower was hired in London, and sailed from London to Southampton in July 1620 to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage--much of which was purchased at Southampton. On September 6, the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England, and headed for America. By the time the Pilgrims had left England, they had already been living onboard the ships for nearly a month and a half. The voyage itself across the Atlantic Ocean took 66 days, from their departure on September 6, until Cape Cod -
First ThanksGiving
The english colonists we call Pilgrims celebrated days of Thanksgiving as part of their religion.But these were days of prayer,not days of feasting. -
Massachusetts was founded
Massachusetts Bay colony was an English settlment on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in the England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The massachusetts Bay Company, which included investors in the failed Dorchester company, which had in 1623 established a short-lined settlement on Cape Ann.The second attempt, the masschusetts Bay Colony in 1628,was successful , with about 20.000 people mirating to New England in the 1630's. -
Magna Carter
Magna Carta exercised a strong influence both on the United States Constitution and on the constitutions of the various states. However, its influence was shaped by what eighteenth-century Americans believed Magna Carta to signify.
Magna Carta was widely held to be the people’s reassertion of rights against an oppressive ruler, a legacy that captured American distrust of concentrated political power.
While Magna Carta would one day become a basic document of the British Constitution, democracy -
English Civil War
The english civil war was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between parliamentarians "roundheads" and royalist "Cavaliers" in the kingdom of England over, principally, the manner of its government. The overall outcome of he wae wa threefold: the trail and execution of Charles I the exile of his son, Charles II; and the replacement of English monarchy with at first the commonwealth of England and ascendancy in Ireland. -
Navigation Act
The Purpose of the Navigation Acts was to encourage British shipping and allow Great Britain to retain the monopoly of British colonial trade for the benefit of British merchants. The 1660 Navigation Act ensured that the importation and exportation of goods from British Colonies were restricted to British ships which were under the control of British mariners. The following Navigation Acts ensured that the highly lucrative profits to be made from the natural resources and industries in the Colon
