• Jamestown founded by the English

  • Quebec founded by the French

  • African slaves sold in Jamestown

  • Plymouth founded by English Pilgrims

  • Mayflower Compact Signed

  • New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch

  • Carolina Colony founded by England

  • Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Catholics

  • Rhode Island founded

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut signed

  • English Civil War Began

  • Halfway Covenant in Massachusetts

  • The English capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York

  • King Philip's War in Massachusetts

  • Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia

  • Pueblo Indian Revolt in Mexico

  • La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

  • Pennsylvania founded by William Penn as a haven for English Quakers

  • The Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke wrote Second Treatises on Government

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • The Spanish found San Antonio, Texas

  • The French Establish New Orleans

  • Beginning of the First Great Awakening

  • Georgia Established

  • Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack

  • John Peter Zenger acquitted in a trial for libel

  • Stono slave rebellion in South Carolina

  • War of Jenkins' Ear

  • King George's War begins

  • French and Indian War begins

  • Albany Plan of Union