Colonial Period to Early Nationalism By juliannestaten 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches America The Italian explorer's ship lands in the Bahamas. 1503 The Mona Lisa is painted 1508 The Sistine Chapel is painted 1513 Jaun Ponce de Leon lands on the Florida Peninsula 1515 Vasco Nunez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean 1520 Magellan sails around the world 1540 Francisco Vazquez De Coronada explores the Southwest 1560 Smallpox Epidemic 1565 First permanent settlement in the US- St. Augustine, Florida. Founded by Pedro Menendez 1586 English colony at Roanoke Island disappears, becomes the Lost Colony 1590 Iroquois Confederation established to stop warfare among five nations 1607 First permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1608 Captain John Smith writes a true relation of Virginia 1609 Galileo builds first telescope 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts 1630 All Europeans expelled from Japan 1636 Harvard College founded in Massachusetts 1639 First printing press arrives in Massachusetts 1640 First book printed in the colonies: the Bay Psalm Book 1642 English Civil War begins 1647 Massachusetts establishes free public schools 1650 Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse, A collection of Poems" is published 1667 "Paradise Lost" published 1675 King Phillip begins raiding New England frontier town 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials, 20 people are executed 1702 First English newspaper published 1735 John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel which furthered freedom of press
