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The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America. Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America. Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus, a band of European sailors left their homeland behind in search of a new world q=christopher+columbus+facts&rlz=1CASFJY_enUS864&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiw__lx5zlAhWCg-AKHSU_DVYQ_AUIDSgA&biw=1310&bih=697&dpr=1&safe=active&ssui=on
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This is about when Columbus Sailed the blue, to when the 13 colonies were established, and when the Boston Tea Party happened.
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In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India. rlz=1CASFJY_enUS864&ei=odWkXcz6L8nN_AatnKO4Dg&q=christopher+columbus+facts&oq=christ&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i131i273j0i131i67j0i67j0i273j0i67l6.24054.33328..35631...1.1..1.137.2892.29j5......0....1..gws-wiz.....6..0i71j0j0i362i308i154i357j0i131..10001%3A0%2C154.usAyzwAA61k&safe=active&ssui=on
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Virginia is founded under the London Company. Virginia then becomes the first settlement. (Jamestown)
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The winter of 1609 is when three quarters of the English colonists were starving and had diseases.
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John was sleeping in a boat one night when a gunpowder explosion happened. He was then sent back to England.
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New Hampshire is created as a fishing colony.
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Connecticut becomes a river colony, later it is called Connecticut.
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He establishes a colony called New Sweden. King Charles II takes control of an area called New Netherland and tells him to give it to his brother James. James renames New Sweden to Delaware.
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Acting on a land grant that is owed to his deceased father, William Penn creates a colony to serve as a refuge for Quakers under persecution in England. By 1700, it grows to be the third largest colony in the New World. I got my info from http://www.softschools.com/timelines/13_colonies_timeline/125/
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. q=boston+tea+party&rlz=1CASFJY_enUS864&oq=boston+tea&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.5171j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on
