Colonial Events in America

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  • 1585

    Roanoke is founded

  • 1587

    Virginia Dare is born in Roanoke

  • 1606

    London Co. sponsors colonization in Virginia

  • 1609

    Native tobacco is planted and harvested in Virginia by colonists

  • 1613

    A dutch trading post is set up on lower Manhattan Island

  • 1616

    Tobacco becomes export staple in Virginia
  • 1616

    1616

    Smallpox epidemic decimates Native Americans in New England

  • 1619

    First legislative meeting of Virginia House of Burgesses

  • 1620

    Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod

  • 1620

    Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men who came to shore on the Mayflower

  • 1621

    One of the first peace treaties is signed between the pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe

  • 1624

    30 Dutch families arrive in New York

  • 1624

    Virginia Co charter is revoked in London and Virginia is declared a Royal colony

  • 1630

    John Winthrop leads a Puritan Migration of 900 colonists to Massachusetts Bay

  • 1630

    Boston is officially established

  • 1633

    First town government in Dorchester, Massachusetts