1600-1700 By Alexiachidester1999 1603 Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia 1604 King James made peace with Spain 1606 Virginia Company, established 1607 Englishmen boarded three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—sailed forty miles up the James River 1609 Henry Hudson tried to discover the Northwest Passage through North America 1609 Four hundred settlers arrived in Jamestown 1610 Santa Fe became the first permanent European settlement 1614 Pocahontas and John Rolfe get married 1616 80 percent of all English immigrants in Jamestown perished. 1616 John Rolfe planted Virginia’s first tobacco crop. 1619 Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses 1619 Southern slavery was born. 1621 The Netherlands chartered the Dutch West India Company 1622 Powhatan died 1625 The Dutch West India Company formed New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island 1626 Peter Minuit “bought” Manhattan from Munsee people Period: 1629 to 1640 friction between the English Parliament and the king. Period: 1630 to 1640 Puritans began the Great Migration 1632 American colonists were exporting over five hundred thousand pounds of tobacco per year. 1633 both Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake 1634 both Protestant and Catholic settlers arrived in Maryland 1636 Hooker led one hundred people and a variety of livestock in settling an area they called Newtown 1636 Roger Williams created a settlement called Providence Period: 1636 to 1637 Pequot War 1638 John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and other supporters of the Puritan faith settled in the Quinnipiac River Valley 1640 political and economic conflicts between Parliament and the Crown 1640 Conflict erupted when Parliament called by Charles refused to grant him subsidies to suppress a rebellion in Scotland. 1641 First African marriage Period: 1641 to 1645 Governor Kieft’s War Period: 1642 to 1649 strained relations between Charles and Parliament led to civil war in England. 1643 Law was passed in Virginia that made African women “tithable." 1643 New Haven Colony was officially organized 1650 at least five hundred enslaved Africans in Dutch colony Period: 1659 to 1663 Esopus Wars Period: 1660 to 1669 Turning point for Black men and women in English colonies 1662 Virginia law stated that an enslaved woman’s children inherited the “condition” of their mother 1664 the handover of New Netherland to England 1665 New Haven was absorbed into Connecticut 1667 New York was briefly reconquered by the Netherlands 1670 Charleston founded 1670 three ships of colonists from Barbados arrived at the mouth of the Ashley River, where they founded Charles Town. Period: 1670 to 1685 King Charles II tightened English control over North America 1675 New England uprising led by the Wampanoag leader Metacom 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion Period: 1675 to 1676 King Philip’s War 1686 James II created the Dominion of New England Period: 1688 to 1689 Glorious Revolution 1689 Parliament’s passage of a Bill of Rights. 1690 Lords Proprietor founded the separate province of North Carolina 1693 Spanish king issued the Decree of Sanctuary