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German-Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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Jamestown was on brink of fall due to famine and deprivation of resources but they started planting tobaccos and exporting to Europe
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House of Burgesses, a representative assembly in colonial Virginia, was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia. The General Assembly was established by Gov. George Yeardley at Jamestown on July 30, 1619. It included the governor himself and a council all appointed by the colonial proprietor along with two elected burgesses. It enabled Jamestown to spur in trading tobacco which was in high demands. It laid the foundation.
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In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, yielding him proprietary rights to a region east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived from the land. The territory was named Maryland in honor of Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I
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English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed it New York.
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Charlestown was established
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On March 4, 1681, King Charles signed the Charter of Pennsylvania, and it was officially proclaimed on April 2. The king named the colony after Penn’s father, Admiral Sir Penn.
