Early American Timeline

By Canes80

  • Jamestown

    The first permanent colony.

  • Shakespeare dies

  • Slaves

    The first enslaved africans arrive in North America at Jamestown.

  • John Winthrop

    wrote that "we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. the eyes of all people are upon us"

  • William Wood

    william wood of massachusetts bay colony noted that the native americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island , the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."

  • School

    North Americas first public school is founded in Boston

  • Bay Psalm Book is first printed in Amercia

    Bibles psalms were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar puritan hymns

  • tenth muse

    Anne Bradstreet was the first by a North American woman to be published.

  • Newspaper

    The Boston Newsletter, the first american newspaper , is established

  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great, Czar of Russia , dies

  • French and Indian War

    (1759-1764)

  • Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence

  • Common sense

    Thoms Paine helped propel the colonists to revolution

  • Constitution

    U.S. constitution is approved

  • Equiano

    Olaudah Equiano's " Interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano" details harsh treatment of captive africans