1492-1763 Timeline

By browns17
  • Oct 1, 1492

    Columbus sails

  • Roanoke civilization begins

  • Roanoke is gone

  • Godspeed, Discovery and Susan Constant arrive

    144 people on the ships go up the Chesapeake Bay and begin the Jamestown colony

  • Jamestown tobacco growing begins

  • first African slaves come to New World

  • Mayflower arrives in Plymouth

  • First Thanksgiving "Harvest Feast"

  • Migration to New World begins

    Arbella (the ship) arrived in 1630 in Plymouth, bringing the beginning of the 13,000+ people who would come to the New World

  • New York begins

    Land between Virginia and New England was given from King Charles II to his brother, it became New York. There were many different ethnicities already living there, very diverse.

  • William Penn creates Pennsylvania

    Penn, a Quaker, was given 45,000 acres of land by the king and he created a colony known as Pennsylvania.

  • North Carolina and South Carolina established

  • Georgia established

    During the 1600s -1700s, the thirteen colonies were established, By 1700s, 250,000 Europeans and Africans in the colonies. There were about 2.5 million by the time of the revolution.

  • French and Indian war begins

  • French and Indian war ends