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The first major English Settlement was founded in modern-day Virginia.
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The Dutch hired Henry Hudson to attempt to find a route through America into Asia called the mythical Northwest Passage. Hudson never found such a passage, but he founded what was called New Amsterdam, now called New York.
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The first major settlement in the American Southwest, this Spanish settlement discovered by Conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta would continue on to the modern day.
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Only 3 weeks after the House of Burgesses is established, 20 or so kidnapped Angolans were sold to Jamestown farmers, beginning an unethical practice that would last for centuries.
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Captain John Smith led the Puritan Pilgrims to found the Plymouth Colony, which would lead to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
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12 million acres of land is set aside by Charles I to be given to Cecilius Calvert. Settlers start to arrive in March 1634, and the land becomes a colony in 1691.
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Due to Boston being overcrowded, Thomas Hooker and 100 other people leave for the Connecticut River Valley, where they establish the settlement of Hartford.
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King Philip's War was a conflict between the colonists of New England and the Native Americans living there. Starting with a death of an Christian-Indian, it ended with the death of "King Philip", a.k.a Metacom of the Wampanoag tribe. The war was a huge loss for the Native Americans, and their loss paved the way for further colonization by colonists, as resistance in New England slowly disappeared.
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The Glorious Revolution was about the overthrowing of James II and his Catholic influence. The Protestants were angry and afraid of Catholic kings ruling over Britain for generations to come, so they revolted to attempt to place William of Orange and James' daughter, Mary, onto the throne, since they were Protestant. The revolution succeeded, and not only did it make England firmly Protestant, but also introduced a "Bill of Rights" that removed absolute power from the monarchy.
