colonial america

By kingcharles99
  • Jan 1, 600

    Mayan civilization

    was located in mexico,created 365-day calendar.Colony started 3000 years ago.
  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to

    colonial america

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Leif Ericson and Vikings Reach North America

    Started around 970. First european to land in North america.Established settlement Vinlad.Explored North america nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
  • Jan 1, 1095

    Crusades

    Series of religious,blessed by the Catholic.The term "crusades was used to describe religious motivated campains.
  • Jan 9, 1275

    Marco Polo reaches China

    Venetian merchant traveler,landed in what is now today.It was an epic 24 years before he returned.
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Renaissance

    cultural movement that spand roughly from the 14th century to the 17th century.It began in Italy and ended all around Europe.
  • Jan 1, 1360

    Aztec civilization

    Ethnic groups of Central Mexico.Aztec refers to "Mexican " people.They situated in Tenochtitlan what is now present day Mexico -city.
  • Jan 1, 1490

    Inca civilization

    Was the largest empire in pre-columbian America.Was located in Cusco which is now present day Peru.Quechua was the native languge for them.
  • Oct 31, 1492

    Christopher columbus discovers America

    Columbus was an explorer,colonizer,navigator. He was born around Genoa in Northwestern Italy.
  • Jan 1, 1494

    Line of Demarcation

    Simply a boundary around a specific area, but is usually used to donate a temporary geopolitical border. It is used for longtitude.
  • Jan 1, 1565

    St. Augustine

    In north eastern florida. Founded in 1565 and is the oldest european founded settlement still active today by Pedro Menendez.

  • Quebec Founded

    Province in east central Canada. Only Canadian province with a prodominantly french speaking population.French settlers founded it in the 17th and 18th century.

  • First Africans arrive in Virginia

    The africans came around 1619 and they were about 20 of them. Thier names are unknown

  • The first women arrive in Virginia

    Around 1619 the first women arrived in a boat. Her marrige was traded for tabacco.

  • House of Burgesses established

    First assembley of elected represenatives of english colonists. It was established by the Virginia Company.

  • Mayflower Compact

    First document to the Plymouth colony. It was written by the colonists of Plymouth[Pilgrims].

  • Harvard College founded

    Private Ivy league school located in Cambridge,MA. Founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Oldest institution of higher learning in the United Stated.

  • Act of Toleration passed in Maryland

    Basically a law mandating religion for trinitarian Christians. It was passed by the Maryland colonies.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Uprising in 1675 in the Virginia colony in North America. Led by a 29 year old man named Nathaniel Bacon.