Timeline

By Devon M.
  • 1494

    Separation

    Separation
    In 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed. When they decided to divide the newly discovered land between Spain and Portugal.
  • 1524

    Explorers

    Explorers
    In 1524 an explorer named Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian that was in the France service. He sailed to North America for a sea route to the pacific. The known place today known as the New York harbor was discovered by Verrazzano.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Explorations of Spain and French-inspired the English. A company of London investors received from King James a charter to find a colony in North America. There were three of the company's ships, and more than 100 settlers, were pushed out of an English harbor. Four months went past, they reached the coast of Virginia. They claimed the land as theirs, they named the settlement Jamestown in honor of there King.

  • Religious freedom

    A group classified as pilgrims found a second English colony, Plymouth, in Massachusetts. They were persecuted for there religious beliefs, inside England, they were in search of religious freedom. Then ten years later a group that was known as Puritans also was in search for religious freedom from England's Anglican Church.

  • Colonizing

    The Dutch government had given the company permission to colonize the region and then expand the fur trade. Then the Dutch holdings in North America came known as New Netherland.

  • Colonizing the Caribbean

    The Dutch captured land that is now known as the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba from Spain. On the islands, the Europeans were building huge cotton and sugar plantations.

  • English beat the Dutch

    Charles II, the English king granted his brother the Duke of York, permission to drive out of the Dutch. The duke's fleet arrived at the New Netherland and made the Dutch surrender without firing any weapons.

  • Mississippi River

    A French Jesuit priest Jaques Marquette and a trader Louis Joliet went to explore the Great Lakes and the Northern Mississippi River. Then 10 years later Sieur de La Salle went to explore the Lower parts of the Mississippi River.

  • The British fight

    The British colonists, that got help from the Britsh Army, defeated the French in North America

  • Fighting for land

    An argument over land claims in Ohio Valley led to a war between the British and the French army on the North American continent. This war was known as the French and Indian War. This war became part of a larger conflict known at the Seven Years'War.