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John White returns to Roanoke
John White returns to Roanoke and finds deserted land. -
Virginia is the first colony
Virginia is the first permanent English settlement -
Massashusetts is founded
Puritans are granted a charter from the king -
New Hampshire is founded.
New Hampshire was named after Hampshire county in Egland -
Lord Baltimore found the colony of maryland
Maryland was granted a royal charter to serve as a refuge for Catholics -
Puritans establish the colony of Connecticut.
Puritan minister Thomas Hooker and Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establish River Colony, later called Connecticut. -
Delaware is founded by Peter Minuit and the New Sweden Company.
Peter Minuit of the Netherlands establishes a colony called New Sweden. Minuit later is forced to give up the colony when King Charles II takes control of the area called "New Netherland" and tells him to give it to his brother James, the Duke of York. James renames New Sweden Delaware. -
A group of Virginians establishes Carolina.
Acting on a charter from King Charles II, eight noblemen from Virginia create a settlement south of Virginia. They call it Carolina, although it is divided into North Carolina and South Carolina when the crown takes control of the colony in 1729. -
Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret found New Jersey.
James, the Duke of York, gives land from New Netherland to his friends Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. They call the colony New Jersey and advertise it as a place of religious freedom. -
The Duke of York establishes New York.
With the Duke of York in control of the former Dutch trading post, he renames it New York. The city the Dutch called New Amsterdam becomes New York City.
