Chapter three dates

A company of English merchants asked King James I for the right to found a new settlement

Jul 5, 1605

A company of English merchants asked King James I for the right to found a new settlement

Chapter three dates

Period: Dec 5, 1605 to Sep 11, 1776

The King granted the request pf the company to settle in a region called Virginia

Mar 3, 1606

The first 105 colonists sent by London Company arrived in America

Aug 16, 1607

Pilgrims moved to the Netherlands

Oct 17, 1608

John Smith took control of Jamestown and built a fort

Nov 16, 1608

400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown

Oct 17, 1609

Only 60 colonists had survived through the winter

Oct 17, 1610

Dutch founded Netherlands

Oct 17, 1613

John Rolfe married Pocahontas

Oct 17, 1614

Virginia's assembly was established

Oct 17, 1619

Dutch ship brought the first Africans to Virginia

Oct 17, 1619

Calvert asked King Charles I for a charter to make a new catholic colony

Oct 17, 1620

Mayflower Compact was signed and Mayflower left England

Oct 17, 1620

Samoset came to the colonists' settlement

Oct 17, 1621

Colonists killed a Powhatan leader

Oct 17, 1622

The English canceled the London Company's charter

Oct 17, 1624

Charles granted Puritans and Merchants a charter to settle in New England

Oct 17, 1629

Fleet of ships left England for religious freedom

Oct 17, 1630

Charles issued the charter to Calvert's son

Oct 17, 1632

Charles II gave Carolina to eight of his supporters

Oct 17, 1633

Many English people left England

Oct 17, 1633

200 English Catholics came to Maryland

Oct 17, 1634

Hokker and his followers left Massachutes to help found Connecticut

Oct 17, 1636

Hooker wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Oct 17, 1639

Protestants moved to Maryland

Oct 17, 1640

General court became a two house

Oct 17, 1644

Toleration act enacted

Oct 17, 1649

English fleet captured New Amsterdam

Oct 17, 1664

Charles II granted Penn a charter to begin a colony west of New Jersey

Oct 17, 1681

Duke of York sold Penn a region south of Pennsylvania

Oct 17, 1682

James II became King of England

Oct 17, 1685

James II united the Northern Colonies under one government

Oct 17, 1686

English Bill Of Rights passed

Oct 17, 1689

45% of women and 70% of men in New England could read and write

Oct 17, 1700

Carolina split into two

Oct 17, 1712

Proprietary government was overthrown

Oct 17, 1719

Crown made the Carolinas royal colonies

Oct 17, 1729

King George II granted a charter to Oglethorpe to found Georgia

Oct 17, 1732

Oglethorpe and 120 colonists founded the city of Savannah

Oct 17, 1733

135,000 indentured servants came to the middle colonies

Oct 17, 1750

British government made Georgia a royal colony with new laws

Oct 17, 1752

Philadelphia is the largest British colonial city

Oct 17, 1760

Delaware is no longer part of Pennsylvania

Oct 17, 1776