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Huge disese still going on today, killed over 100,000 of people.
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Wars were started, soldiers were captured and they were sold to England to be slaves.
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Ottoman Empire makes european contries pay to get to the indies
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Attemt to find a different way to the indies
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Columbus tries to find a new way to get to the Indies, he discovers a new land.
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first successful trip across water by the Europeans, sailing for Portugal
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Italitan sailing for Portugal makes it around southern tip of new land these lands are named after him
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Ponce de Leon is the first European to set foot on what we now call the USA
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sponsored by France, lands in the area around the Carolinas, then sails north and discovers the Hudson River, and continues northward into Narragansett Bay and Nova Scotia
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France is trying for a westerly route to the Indies and discovers the Great Lakes area of North America
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Spain starts the first and now oldest permanent settlement at St. Augustine Florida
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England tries to set up a colony, Roanoke
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England 2nd try to set up a colony, Roanoke, but it fails
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by the English results in Great Britain replacing Spain as the dominant world power and leads to a gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World
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England is the last of the major powers in Europe to start a colony in the New World
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A Dutch explorer sailed along the Hudson river named after him
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English pilgrims, the Puritans, land at Plymout
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In March, John Winthrop leads a Puritan migration of 900 colonists to Massachusetts Bay, where he will serve as the first governor. In September, Boston is officially established and serves as the site of Winthrop's government
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for black slaves mandatory to prevent them from taking advantage of legal precedents established in England which grant freedom under certain conditions, such as conversion to Christianity
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English Quakers start a colony in Pennsilvenia for religious freedoms
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as hostilities in Europe between the French and English spill over to the colonies in February, Schenectady, New York is burned by the French with the aid of their Native American allies
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These southerns colonies were larger farms
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British and Natives started a war with French for land
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The colinists had to pay mor taxes so the British police was sent to Bosten
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In July, in the territory of California, San Diego is founded by Franciscan Friar Juniper Serra. In October, the boycott of English goods spreads to New Jersey, Rhode Island, and then North Carolina
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A group of protesters throw a club at a troop and the troop started to fire. Five people were killed
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The population of the American colonies reaches 2,210,000 people
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Rebels throw a shipment of tea because of the taxes
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They wanted to reason with England and be given a voice in its goverment
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900 red coats march to concord to take wepons from the colinists had bought and hid
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The Continental Congress gathers for the second time and drafts The Declaration of Indipendence
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After Cornwallis Surenders to Washington the war ends Britain signs treay that states US won
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Members of Congress gather to write up the Constitution
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All states agree to the wording of the Constitution
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Congress passes what are collectively known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These acts, the Naturalization Act, the Alien Act, the Sedition Act, and the Alien Enemies Act
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arriving there on the 8th. Throughout the coming year he devotes himself to Monticello's development
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December 14. George Washington dies at Mount Vernon