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Three ships (the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery) sailed forty miles up the James River and established Jamestown, in April of 1607
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Quebec was founded in 1608 under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain and provided a foothold for New France.
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In 1609, the Dutch commissioned Henry Hudson to discover the Northwest passage.
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Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610, by Juan de Oñate.
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In 1619 the fist slaves arrived in Jamestown and they established the House of Burgesses.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630, by a group of Puritans, who left England. The governor John Winthrop
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In 1636 the colony of Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker.
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Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams.
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The Act of Religious Toleration was passed in Maryland in 1649, granting religious freedom to all Christians.
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The Navigation Act of 1651 was aimed at the Dutch in order to cripple their freight trade.
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After a group of Indians stole a man's pigs, because he refused to pay them, Natthaniel Bacon led a group of rebelling Virginia settlers against Colonial Governor William Berkeley.
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The Glorious Revolution, also known as the bloodless revolution, was a revolution between parliament and the monarchy fighting over religion and control. The revolution ended with parliament winning and placing a relative of King James in power.
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Massachusetts was the first colony to issue paper money in 1690.
