Colonial North America

By Mythire
  • Sep 8, 1492

    Spanish Colonization

    Columbus encountered the New World for the first time.
  • Feb 8, 1520

    Coronado's expiditon from Mexico to Kansas

    Well know and capable 27 year old led 240 mounted soldiers, 60 foot soldiers, and 800 indians slaves, and hundreds of head of cattle and horses northward
  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier Sailed the St. Lawrence

    The king had orderd Jacque to find some Gold, pices, and a water passge from France to Asia
  • Sep 8, 1538

    Hernando de Soto's expedition of the Southeast

    It lasted 5 years from 1538-1543
  • Sep 8, 1550

    Jaun de Onate founded Santa Fe

  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish established 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.
  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

  • Jamestown, Virgnia founded

  • French began fur trade with Indians

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

    He had enough to be able to ship back to england
  • First African Slaves arrived in Virginia

    20 and odd amount arrived
  • Plymouth, Massachsetts founded

  • Beaver Wars

    Started in 1640 and ended in 1701 its also called the french and iroquois wars
  • South Caronlina colony founded

  • Marquette and joliet sailed down the Mississippi

  • The Pueblo Revolt

    :Pueblos" rebelled against their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest. Spaniards had dominated them, their lives, their land, and their souls for eight decades.
  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

  • Georgia Colony founded