colonial era timeline

By campbellj.2017
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus found america

    he found land, it had people on it and he called them idians cause he thought he was in india
  • Period: Sep 10, 1530 to Sep 10, 1540

    French began fur trade with Indians

    Started fur trade in Canada
  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier

    sailed the St. Lawrence, Sailed up the St. Francis River into Canada
  • May 18, 1538

    Hernando de Soto’s expedition of the Southeast

    he went towards florida so he could explore that territory
  • Oct 2, 1541

    Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas

    he went to explore in 1601 there was evidence that he explored kansas
  • Aug 8, 1565

    Spanish establish St. Augustine

    feast of the hippo started building in florida

  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

    looked for gold built houses and stuff

  • Samuel de Champlain

    Explored North America and established the city of Quebec in the northern colony of new France

  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

    104 men and boys landed, named after king james,

  • Juan de Onate

    Founded a city at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, holy city of Assisi

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

    supported jamestown

  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

    brought in by the dutch

  • South Carolina colony founded

    eight men founded this
  • Period: to

    beaver wars

    wars fought between french and the iroquosis

  • The Pueblo Revolt

    Uprising of a group of people against spanish colonizers in present day New Mexico

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

    one of the 13 colonies

  • Georgia Colony founded

    James Oglethorpe 114 colonist went 40 feet up from the savannah river and founded the colony of georgia