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1492
1492- Christoper Columbus first voyage
A maritime expedition led by Christopher Columbus encountered the America. It was believed that Columbus and his crew had been the first Europeans to make landfall in the Americas -
1497
John Cabot
John Cabot's discovery of the coast of North America was the first exploration of the mainland of NA since 11th century. In the mistaken belief that he had reached the northeast coast of Asia, Cabot returned to Bristol on Aug. 6, 1497. He reported that the land was excellent, the climate temperate, and the sea covered with enough fish to end England’s dependence on Iceland’s fish. -
1579
Francis Drake's cicumnavigation
In 1577 he was chosen as the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the coast that lay beyond. The expedition was backed by the queen herself. Sailed up to Canada and then back down to New Albion, which is San Francisco today, and took possession of it in the name of Queen Elizabeth. -
Roanoke Colony
The colony was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in today's North Carolina. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. However, the colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after the last shipment of supplies from England. -
The London Company and Plymouth Company are granted charters
LC was an English established by royal charter by King James I with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. The territory granted to the London Company included the eastern coast of America from the 34th parallel north to the 41st parallel. As part of the Virginia Company and Colony, the London Company owned a large portion of Atlantic and Inland Canada.The portion of the company's territory north of the 38th parallel was shared with the Plymouth Company. -
Jamestown
A period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610. 60 out of the 500 residents survived.The colonists, the first group of whom had originally arrived at Jamestown on May 13, 1607, had never planned to grow all of their own food. Their plans depended upon trade with the local Powhatan to supply them with food between the arrivals of periodic supply ships from England. The commercialisation of tobacco by John Rolfe secured the settlement's long-term economic prosperity. -
Indian Massarce of 1622
At first, the natives were glad to trade provisions to the colonists but by 1609 the English governor John Smith had begun to send in raiding parties to demand food. This earned the colonists a bad reputation among the Native Americans and precipitated conflict, they isolated the Native Americans, burned down houses, and stole their food supplies. Powhatan chief led surprise attacks by the Powhatan Confederacy that killed 347 people, a quarter of the English population of the Virginia colony. -
New England Company reorganized as the Massachusetts Bay Company
England Company, known previously as the Dorchester Company, set up a settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay. -
The Pequot War
The war took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies. It ended with defeat of the Pequot, 700 Pequot had been killed or captured. The colonial authorities classified the tribe as extinct -
The Peach Tree War
The Peach Tree War was a large-scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River centred on New Amsterdam and Pavonia on September 15, 1655. -
King Philip's War
A war between American Indian inhabitants of New England and English colonists and their Indian allies in 1675–78. In the space of little more than a year, 12 towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the economies of Rhode Island and Plymouth Colony were all but ruined, and the population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service in those two colonies. More than half of New England's towns were attacked by Indians. -
New York Slave Revolt
The slave revolt was an uprising in New York City, in the British Province of New York, of 23 enslaved Africans who killed nine British people and injured another six.70 African Americans were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed. -
Yamasee War
It was a conflict between British settlers of colonial South Carolina and various Native American tribes, including the Yamasee. Some of the Native American Indian groups played a minor role while others launched attacks throughout South Carolina in an attempt to destroy the colony. Native Americans killed hundreds of colonists and destroyed many settlements. The last of South Carolina's major Native American foes withdrew from the conflict in 1717, bringing a fragile peace to the colony. -
The Molasses Act
A British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies. The act aimed at reserving a practical monopoly of the American sugar market to British West Indies sugarcane growers, The American colonists protested the act, claiming that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies’ needs. -
Expulsion of Acadians (The Great Upheaval)
This was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island—an area also known as Acadia. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported -
The Boston Massacre
An incident where British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. This included an eleven year old boy.