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Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in America.
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Johannes Kepler published his Laws of Planetary Motion which explained the movements of the planets around sun.
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Galileo sees Jupiter through a telescope and shows the Copernican system which proves the planets circling the sun was right.
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The King James Version of the Bible was published.
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe who brings tobacco to the colony. Their marriage creates peace between the colonists and Native Americans.
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This is when Shakespeare died
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Protestants revolted against Catholic oppression. Germany was invaded by Denmark, France, and Sweden. Johannes Kepler also proposed the last three laws of Planetary Motion.
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The first slaves were brought to Jamestown (Slavery was made legal later on though).
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Pilgrims from England arrive on the Mayflower.
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The first Thanksgiving is celebrated between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag tribe who helped the colonists settle.
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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Man-a-hat-a-Indians for $24 and renames it New Amsterdam.
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When John Winthrop founded Boston, Massachusetts.
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Galileo is forced to "recant" his Copernican Theory.
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Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony that promotes "religious tolerance."
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Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams two years after he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The German population is half of what it was in 1618 because of war and disease.
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A charter was granted to establish Carolina by King Charles II.
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Isaac experiments with gravity.
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The English take New Amsterdam from the Dutch and name it New York.
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The Great Plague in London kills 75,000 people
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Charleston was founded in what is now present day South Carolina.
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Nathaniel Bacon revolts and causes the burning of Jamestown.
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Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn when he signed a treaty with the Delaware Indians and buys the land.
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The first newspaper released in the United States in Boston, although it was "suppressed" and was not a regular thing until 1704.
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French settlers move to Mississippi and Louisiana.
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After Jamestown burned, the colonist abandoned it and moved to the Middle Plantation which soon became Williamsburg.
