The 13 Colonies

By sebastiao.serrador

  • Settlement in Roanoke

    91 men, 17 women and nine children settled on the island of Roanoke.

  • Colony Disapeers

    The colony of the island of Roanoke vanishes completely with no clue what happened to them

  • King James I issued Royal Charter

    King James I issued royal charter, which divided the Atlantic Seabord in 2 (London and Plymouth Company)

  • Journey to Virginia

    the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.

  • Journey ended

    Ships arrive to Cheaspeake

  • Start of Jamestown

    Boats arrive to Chesapeake Bay, and build a settlement called Jamestown

  • Tobacco

    Virginian settlers start to grow tobacco

  • Slaves in Virginia

    The first African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • Pilgrims

    Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth

  • Start of Royal Colony

    King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony.

  • Another Massachusetts Settlement

    Massachusetts Bay Company send a larger Group of Puritans to settle in another Massachusetts settlement

  • The Tobacco Colonies

    Crown Grants 12 million acres at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert.

  • Middle Colonies

    King Charles II gives territory from the Dutch to his brother, the Duke of York, which would be called New York later

  • Conneticut and New Haven

    Connecticut and New Haven combined

  • Settlement of Pennsylvania

    King grants 45,000 square miles of land miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn. the land called later Pennsylvania.

  • Southern Colonies

    The Carolina Colony splits into two

  • Settlement of Georgia

    The Englishman James Oglethorpe founded the Georgia Colony