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Oct 14, 1492
Columbus "discovers" America
Christopher Columbus and all of the other people on the ships landed on San Salvador this day. When they returned, he told the people of the place he had "discovered". Then, people started ariving at the place he discovered, and they got more populated and they started colonizing the Americas. -
Jamestown Colony created
Jamestown was on the mainland of North America, and it was the first successful English settlement there. It was founded for quick profit from gold from gold mining for its investors. -
Plymouth Colony created
Plymouth Colony was created by the Pilgrims in 1620. The first settlement in the colony was at New Plymouth. New Plymouth is now the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony created
Massacusetts Bay was an English settlement on the east coast of North America. It's around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. -
New Amsterdam becomes New York
New Amsterdam was renamed New York in honor of the Duke of York, who carried out the plan to get the Dutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant, to surrender New Amsterdam. -
William Penn creates Pennsylvania
He founded Pennsylvania with a land grant that was owed to his father, who was deceased at the time, He wanted to create a conoly that allowed freedom of religion. -
George Washington assaults Fort Duquesne
George Washington's attack on Fort Duquense was the first blood in what had proved the war between the French and Brittish (on American soil) as the French and Indian War. -
Albany Congress meets
The English Board of Trade called a Congress of the New England Colonies to try to resolve two problems in the Ohio Valley of American Colonies. Benjamin Franklin, on his way to the Congress, he created the Albany Plan of Union, which united the Congress into one whole government. -
The French & Indian War concludes
When General James Wolfe captured Quebec, the French and Indian War ended. In the New World, the English started taxing the colonist as a result of the ending of the war.
