13 colonles By evan1223456789 1524 New Jersey Verrazano explores the Jersey coast 1607 Virginia 1620 Massachusetts 1623 New Hampshire Dover settlement founded 1626 New York 1627 Delaware First settlement by the Swedes 1634 Maryland 1635 Connecticut The Pequot War 1636 Rhode Island 1636 Connecticut 1638 New Hampshire 1638 Delaware 1644 Pennsylvania Oct 14, William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods, was born. 1653 North Carolina 1663 South Carolina 1664 New Jersey 1681 pennsylvania 1691 North Carolina the area assumed the name of North Carolina 1700 South Carolina Hurricane struck Charleston, 98 killed. 1732 Georgia 1742 Georgia First Thanksgiving Day in Georgia 1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution. 1788 New York Convention of the State of New York, meeting in Poughkeepsie, voted to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1788 Maryland Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, an act that admitted it as America’s seventh state. 1882 Massachusetts famous paintings 1954 Rhode Island red hen