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Landing at James Town
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia. -
Henry Hudson sails up Hudson River
On the misty morning of September 3, 1609, explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon sailed into the majestic river off the Atlantic coast by chance. Strong head winds and storms forced them to abandon the northeast voyage they had been assigned. -
House of Burgesses
This was the House of Burgesses, and it first met on July 30, 1619, at a church in Jamestown. -
Arrival of the Puritans into the New World
The Pilgrims left for New England on board the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth Rock. -
The Indian Massacre of 1622
The Indian attack of March 22,1622, constituted a watershed in history of the Jamestown settlement. It claimed the lives of approximately 347 colonists and came perilously close to extinguishing England’s most promising outpost in North America. -
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island
In May of 1626, Dutch West India Company rep Peter Minuit met with local Lenape Native Americans to purchase the rights to the island of Manhattan for the value of 60 guilders -
Settlers land at Maryland
The English first settled the colony of Maryland in 1634. King Charles I granted the land south of the 40th parallel to the Potomac River to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore. -
Harvard is Established
Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Slavery in Rhode Island
In 1652, Rhode Island passed the first abolition law in the Thirteen Colonies banning slavery, but the law was not enforced by the end of the 17th century. -
The English takes New Amsterdam over
In 1664 the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York City after the Duke of York (later James II & VII). After the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665–67, England and the United Provinces of the Netherlands agreed to the status quo in the Treaty of Breda. -
Bacon's Rebellion
It was an armed rebellion that took place in 1676 by Virginia settlers. Nathaniel Bacon was leading this rebellion fighting against Governer William Berkeley. -
Pennsylvania colony is established
Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 by William Penn. Penn was issued a land grant by King Charles II largely because of a significant debt owed to his father, Admiral Penn. -
France claims the Mississippi river valey
French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, sailed from the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence River, through the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682. There he raised a French flag and claimed all the lands drained by the Mississippi for France.
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The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution,” took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. Motives for the revolution were complex and included both political and religious concerns.
