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The House of Burgesses' first meeting was in 1619. The burgesses made local laws for the colony
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Ten days after their first stop at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony called the Mayflower Compact.
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In 1620 William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England.
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The Massachusetts Bay Company picked John Winthrop for the governer of the colony. He brought 900 men, women, and children to Massachusetts Bay.
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Roger Williams and other colonists who were forced out of Massachusetts settled Rhode Island.
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Thomas Hooker did not like the way Puritan leaders ran the Massachusetts colony. In 1636 he brought his congregation to Hartford, Connecticut.
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After Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield formed a colony they formed the first plan of government in America called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. In great detail it described the organization of representative government
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In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrendered Dutch to England without a shot being fired.
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In 1682 William Penn supervised Philadelphia, he later founded Pennsylvania.
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In 1690 British took Port Royal from French.
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After British take Port Royal in 1690 the French retake it.
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In 1710 Port Royal and Acadia fall to British.
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In 1745 British took French fortress at Louisbourg.
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The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Louisbourg to France.
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In 1758 the British retook Louisbourg
