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Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia), and launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod.
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Peace is made between the English and Spaniards, causing privateering to no longer hold out the promise of cheap wealth.
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Englishmen aboard three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—sailed forty miles up the James River in present-day Virginia and settled on just such a place. This settlement becomes Jamestown.
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Jamestown, Virginia is established as the first permanent English colony.
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Dutch commissioned the Englishman Henry Hudson to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through North America.
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The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established
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A limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown.
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A Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists. Southern slavery was born.
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The Pequot War begins in 1636 between Pequot tribe and colonists.
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New Amsterdam's first African marriage occurs. By 1650, there were at least 500 enslaved Africans
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Dutch colonists in New Netherland (New York and New Jersey) enslaved Algonquians Governor Kieft’s War
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Dutch colonists in New Netherland (New York and New Jersey) enslaved Algonquians during the two Esopus Wars
