Events 1600-1700

  • Jamestown is founded

  • The colony of Virginia is founded

  • Period: to

    The founding of the 13 Colonies

  • The House of Burgesses

    The first ever assembly in America
  • The colony of Massachusetts is founded

  • Mayflower arrived in America

    With the arrival of the Mayflower (on where is now Cape Cod) they soon established the settlement which would be known as the Plymouth Colony
  • The colony of New Hampshire is founded

  • The colony of Maryland is founded

    It was technically founded in 1632 but the man who owned the land that was Maryland died and was handed to his son in 1634
  • The colony of Connecticut is founded

  • The colony of Rhode Island is founded

  • The colony of Delaware is founded

  • The founding of British army

  • The colony of North Carolina is founded

  • The colony of South Carolina is founded

  • The colony of New York is founded

  • The English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch

    The English seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and changed its name to New York
  • The colony of New Jersey is founded

  • The colony of Pennsylvania is founded

  • Paper currency was introduced

  • The colony of Georgia is founded

    (I know this shouldn't be here, but its not right to have one of the 13 Colonies with the others