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Sep 8, 1565
First permanent Spanish settlement was established at St. Augustine.
In 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now Matanzas Bay and founded the Presidio of San Agustin, which would later be called St. Augustine. -
Roanoke Colony disappears and is called the Lost Colony.
In 1590, John White returned to his home, the Roanoke Colony. At that time, he made a devastating discovery, no one was there! The word "CROATOAN" was carved on a tree nearby. There is a possibility that war spread to the colony, -
Jamestown settlement is established.
104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. The picked Jamestown as their settlement which was named after King James I on May 13, 1607. It became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Pocahontas and John Rolfe marry.
In 1614, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and was baptized "Rebecca". Later, in April, Pocahontas and John Rolfe marry. -
House of Burgesses Forms
After Governor George Yeardley's arrival in Jamestown in 1619, he immediately gave notice that the Virginia colony would establish a legislative assembly. This assembly, the General Assembly, which would later be called the House of Burgesses, first met on July 30, 1619. -
Plymouth Colony is founded.
Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Separatist Puritans in December 1620. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom, or simply to find a better life. -
First Thanksgiving Celebration Feast
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. -
North Carolina Colony founded.
The Province of North Carolina was a British colony that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776, created as a proprietary colony. The power of the British government was vested in a governor of North Carolina, but the colony declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. -
New Jersey Colony founded.
In 1664, the British conquered New Netherlands. King Charles II gave the whole area between New England and Maryland to his brother the Duke of York. The Duke of New York then granted the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley. Both had been loyal to him during the English Civil War. They named the colony New Jersey after the English Channel Island of Jersey. -
William Penn established Pennsylvania.
William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
