13 colonies map

American Colonies

By maxy99
  • Period: 1420 to 1550

    Age of Discovery

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus' first voyage

  • 1579

    Francis Drake claims New Albion for England

  • Roanoke Colony founded

  • Jamestown Settlement founded

  • Plymouth Colony founded

    By Pilgrims (Puritans)

  • Virginia becomes a crown colony

    After Virginia Company collapses

  • Puritans found Boston

    As well as 10 other settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Company

  • Crown formally recognizes Virginia Assembly

  • Virginia acknowledges authority of Parliament of England

    Following English Civil War

  • 1st of the Navigation Acts

  • Outbreak of King Philip's War

    Colonists vs. Native Americans

  • Bacon's Rebellion quashed

  • 1st New York assembly

    Charter of Liberties issued

  • Articles of misdemeanor drawn up against Rhode Island and Conneticut

  • New England protests against arbitrary taxes

  • Beginning of King William's War

    New France vs. New England

  • Board of Trade established

    Control relations with colonies

  • Outbreak of Seven Years' War

    Called French and Indian War in colonies