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Timeline: The British Colonies

By Yakob
  • 1570

    Iroquois Confederacy forms

    Iroquois Confederacy forms
    The Iroquois Confederacy, or Iroquois League, was founded as a cooperative and peacekeeping organization among the Five Nations of the Iroquois—Mohawks, Oneidas, Onandagas, Cayugas, and Senecas.

  • Africans arrive in Virginia

    The first African slave ship arrives in Virginia.

  • First Navigation Act

    First Navigation Act
    The FNA is regulated and allows colonial trade.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

  • Great Awakening Peaks

    Great Awakening Peaks
    The Great Awakening has it's peak.

  • French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War begins.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    King George issues the Proclamation of 1763.

  • Stamp Act Protest

    Stamp Act Protest
    Colonists protest Stamp Act, which forces them to pay tax on all paper documents.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre occurs where 5 colonists are shot in a protest.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and dumped a whole ship of tea into the ocean.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The battles that started The Revolutionary War begin with the minute man and the British.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Colonist issue the Declaration of Independence.