Beginnings to 1607

By ddmoore
  • Flooding of Bering Strait Land Bridge
    8000 BCE

    Flooding of Bering Strait Land Bridge

    The Bering Strait Land Bridge was a natural bridge that connected the separated continents of Asia and North America. It was about 1,000 miles North to South at its largest. As the last Glacial ends the sea levels rise and Bering Strait Land Bridge also floods.
  • Kennewick Man
    7560 BCE

    Kennewick Man

    Between the years 7560 BCE and 7370 BCE the Kennewick Man dies alongside the Columbia River in Washington. His bones are the oldest found fully intact.
  • Mesoamerica
    5000 BCE

    Mesoamerica

    Early cultivation of food crops in Mesoamerica. Some staple food crops included maize, beans, squash, and chile.
  • Vinland
    1000

    Vinland

    Leif Ericsson lands in Newfoundland and calls it Vinland. For a couple hundred years afterward the Vikings briefly settle in that region which also includes New England.
  • Cliff Palace Built
    1200

    Cliff Palace Built

    Cliff Palace was built and had around 100 residents while used in the 1200s.
  • Cliff Palace Abandoned
    1300

    Cliff Palace Abandoned

    Cliff Palace was abandoned.
  • Saint Augustine
    1565

    Saint Augustine

    Saint Augustine becomes first permeant settlement in America by the Spanish. Is in present-day Florida.
  • Roanoke Island

    Roanoke Island

    Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the colony of Roanoke Island in North Carolina. This was also where the first English child, Virginia Dare, was born in America.
  • Roanoke Island Disappearance

    Roanoke Island Disappearance

    Five years after the establishment of the colony, the Governor, John White, returns to the colony from England. He finds that the 100+ settlers have completely vanished. Among the settlers who disappeared were Governor John White's daughter and granddaughter, who was Virginia Dare. With no sign of struggle and the word "Croatoan" carved into a post, what happened to the settlers still remains a mystery.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    The first permeant English settlement in Virginia.