13 colonies

  • Roanoke settled

    A group of settlers settle in Roanoke
  • Roanoke

    The people inside of Roanoke suddenly vanish
  • Seaborder Split

    King James issues royal charter to divide seaborder
  • Discovery of Virgina

    144 men are sent sailing to Virginia
  • Jamestown

    They reach Chesapeake Bay and go 60 miles north the James river to Jamestown
  • Tobacco

    Settlers find how to grow Tobacco and do so
  • First slaves arrive

    First slaves arrive from Africa
  • Pilgrims

    Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth
  • King rejects charter

    King rejects Virginia company's charter and in turn it becomes a colony
  • More separatists in America

    Massachusetts Bay Company sends more Puritan separatists to America
  • Maryland

    Crown grants 12 mil acres of land to Lord Baltimore who calls it Maryland after the queen
  • Land

    King Charles II gave land between New England and Virginia to his brother
  • Merge

    Connecticut and New Haven merge
  • Pennsylvania

    Kind granted 45000 square miles of land to William Penn, Pennsylvania
  • Carolina Split

    Carolina splits into North and South
  • Georgia

    Georgia colony established as a buffer zone between South Carolina and Spanish Florida