American colonies

By will.chantry17
  • 1492

    1492 – Christopher Columbus' first voyage

  • 1494

    1494 –

    The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal
  • 1496

    1496 –

    Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled.
  • 1497

    1497 –

    First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • 1539

    1539–42 –

    Hernando de Soto explores North America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ozarks.

  • 1605 –

    George Weymouth explores New England.

  • 1609 –

    Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River.

  • 1611–16 –

    Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as Governor of Virginia.

  • 1620 –

    The Pilgrims found the Plymouth Colony.

  • 1624 –

    Virginia Company collapses and Virginia becomes a crown colony. Dutch West India Company founds New Netherland

  • 1624–26 –

    Dorchester Company founded. The Dorchester Company, as it was then called, sent just 14 fishermen across the Atlantic Ocean. They landed on Cape Ann and set up a fishing outpost called Gloucester. Wanted to establish a trade settlement abroadhttp://www.smplanet.com/teaching/colonialamerica/colonies/dorchester

  • 1626 – .

    Founding of Salem, Massachusetts (originally called "Naumkeag"). Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan

  • 1626

    Dutch purchase Manhattan Island from local Native Americans

  • 1628 –

    Dorchester Company reorganized as the New England Company.

  • 1630

    Puritans found the city of Boston

  • 1636 –

    Connecticut Colony founded. Roger Williams founds the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Harvard University founded.

  • 1636 -

    Thomas Hooker moves to Connecticut and establishes what will become the Connecticut Colony.

  • 1639

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut describes government of Connecticut- first written constitution

  • 1655

    Dutch take control of New Sweden

  • 1656

    Quakers arrive in New England

  • 1663

    Province of Carolina is created

  • 1664

    England capture New Netherlands and names it New York- New Amsterdam named New York
    http://www.history.com/news/the-dutch-surrender-new-netherland-350-years-ago

  • 1682

    City of Philadelphia is founded

  • 1690

    Spain begins to colonise Texas

  • 1692

    Salem Witch trials- 20 executed for witchcraft

  • 1702

    Queen Anne's war begins- war fought between France and England for control of provinces in North America. Ended with British victory- they gained Acadia, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay and Saint Kitts off France.

  • 1718

    New Orleans is founded by the French

  • 1733

    First settlers arrive in Georgia

  • 1754-63

    French and Indian war won by Britain and gain territory in North America like Florida

  • 1765

    British government passes Stamp Act taxing colonies

  • 1770

    Boston Massacre occurs
    British soldiers killed 5 in firing shots at a crowd heckling a sentry (soldier keeping charge of a place)- helped galvanise the public to the Patriot cause. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre

  • 1773

    Boston Tea Party- served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties and passed the Tea Act in 1773. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party

  • 1774

    First Continental congress meet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 1775

    Revolutionary war begins