-
On the date, three ships landed in Jamestown, which established the first English settlement in the U.S.
-
On this date, Pilgrims first step foot on Plymouth Rock
-
The Puritans established the Mayflower Compact, it established a government and legal structure.
-
The Pilgrims and some of the Campanoag tribe have the first Thanksgiving feast in the autumn time.
-
This was when Chief Opchanacanough and the Powhatan Confederacy attempted to rid their colony of settlers; 1/3 of the settlers were killed.
-
Pequot teamed up with their alliance to fight against Plymouth, Saybrok, and Massachusetts colonies; at the end of the war their were only 200 Pequot tribe members left.
-
On this day, Harvard college was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-
This treaty ended the Pequot War.
-
Slavery is legalized in the Massachusetts Colony.
-
On this date, the constitution of the General Assembly of Rhode island is drafted; in this the church and state are going to be separating.
-
Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and is also recognized in the American colonies.
-
The Navigation Act is passed, the British Parliament controls colonial commerce in the New World.
-
One of the costliest wars for European settlements, twelve towns were destroyed.
-
During Bacon's Rebellion, Jamestown was burned down. Nathanial Bacon lead the rebellion of planters against the Governor Berkeley.
-
On this date, the first newspaper was issued in the United States.
