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Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in America. It is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia. -
Starving time
The colony lacked supplies and clashed with the natives -
The tobacco
John Rolfe grew the first tobacco in Virginia -
The first tobacco exported to Europe
The colonists grew tobacco in 1616 and shipped it to the British Empire in 1617 -
The House of Burgesses
the first representative assembly in America meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. -
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England. -
The Great Pilgrim Movement
About twenty thousand Puritans migrated to New England -
Maryland
In 1632, Charles I set a tract of about 12 million acres of land at the northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay aside for a second colony in America. -
the Pequot War
In 1636-1637, Massachusetts Bay colonists sold hundreds of Native Americans into slavery in the West Indies. -
Population growth
Colonial population is estimated at 50,400. -
Economic embargo
Parliament responded with an act in 1650 that leveled an economic embargo on the rebelling colonies. -
New Amsterdam
English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York. -
East Jersey and West Jersey
In 1664, the Duke of York granted the area between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two English noblemen. These lands were split into two distinct colonies, East Jersey and West Jersey. -
Colonial rebellion
The native Americans clashed with the colonists, and the war changed the political and demographic landscape of New England -
Bacon's rebellion
In 1676, Bacon led the Bacon Rebellion, which tried to overthrow the colonial government. It ended with his death and his surrender in January 1677 -
The natives of New Mexico drove the Spanish out of the colony
In New Mexico, the Puebloans eradicated all traces of Spanish rule. They destroyed churches and threw themselves into rivers to wash away their Christian baptisms. “The God of the Christians is dead,” Popé proclaimed, and the Puebloans resumed traditional spiritual practices. The Spanish were exiled for twelve years. They returned in 1692, weakened, to reconquer New Mexico. -
William Penn founded the state of Pennsylvania
William Penn received a royal charter from Charles II to establish Pennsylvania. -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution took place in England in 1688 -
Salem witch trials
Due to some supernatural phenomenon, the witch hunt took place in Massachusetts
