Colonial Area Timeline

  • Period: Aug 3, 1492 to

    Columbus encountered the New World for the first time

    Christopher Columbus left mainland Spain on August 3, 1492. He quickly made port in the Canary Islands for a final restocking and left there on September 6.
  • Apr 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence

    Jacque had left France by a boat in April 1534, but the king ordered him to find gold, spices which were some variable at that time .
  • Jun 9, 1534

    jacque cartier sailed the st lawrence

    Navigator Jacque Cartier had left France by boat in April 1534
  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the st lawerence

    when french navigator jacques cariter had left france by boat in april 1534
  • Period: Sep 10, 1538 to Sep 10, 1541

    Hernando de Soto's expedition of the Southeast

    Hernando de soto's and his men traveled nearly 4,000 miles throughout the area that would become the southeastern United States in search of riches, fighting off Native American attacks along the way.
  • Sep 10, 1540

    Coromado's expedition from mexico to kansas

    he moved his army east to the pueblos around albuquerque
  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish establish st augustine florida

    Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin.
  • Period: Aug 13, 1574 to

    Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

    He made the first accurate map of the coast.
  • Period: Aug 13, 1574 to

    Samuel de champlain founded quebec

    he was a french explorer in the americans and was a founder of quebec
  • Period: to

    attempted roanoke colony

    John White led 118 colonists to Roanoke. John White, had an idea to get people to go to Roanoke Island. It was to attract settlers who would bring their families with them and invest in the colony. In the spring of 1587, they set sail. When he returned in 1591, all he found was Roanoke deserted and "CROATOAN" carved on a tree.
  • juan de onate founded santa fe

    Juan de onate claimed all of the territory across the river crossing to the north for the Spanish Empire.
  • jamestown, virginia founded

    English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I.
  • first african slaves arrived in virgina

    experimented with tobacco, which until that point had been controlled on European markets by the Spanish. Ralph Hamor, Secretary of Virginia, said Rolfe used tobacco seeds he obtained from somewhere in the Caribbean, possibly from Trinidad.  Rolfe gave some tobacco from his crop to friends “to make triall of,” and they agreed the new leaf “smoked pleasant, sweete and strong.”
  • plymouth, massachusetts founded

    during the reign of King James I, around 100 English men and women–many of them members of the English Separatist Church–set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship. The ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts, two months later, and in late December anchored at Plymouth Rock, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England.
  • south carolina colony founded

    eight English nobles with a Royal Charter from King Charles II founded South Carolina Colony. North and South Carolina were one colony until 1729.
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    Beaver Wars

    known as the iroquois wars or the french and iroquois wars
  • Period: to

    the pueblo revolt

    The Pueblo angrily fight against unfair authority of 1680 also known as Pope's Fighting against authority was a violent effort by a group of people of most of the native to Pueblo people against the Spanish people who first lived in a new place in the area of control of land of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, present day New Mexico
  • pennsylvania colony founed

    After years of planning and two months crossing the Atlantic, James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists climbed 40 feet up the bluff from the Savannah River on this day in 1733 and founded the colony of Georgia.
  • georgia colony founded

    fter years of planning and two months crossing the Atlantic, James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists climbed 40 feet up the bluff from the Savannah River on this day in 1733 and founded the colony of Georgia.