New World Timeline

By maxnks
  • Dec 12, 1492

    Columbus sails to the new world

  • Sir Walter Raleigh starts a colony on the island of Roanoke

    Colony fails when he comes back from Europe and nobody remains

  • Virginia Dare, first European child born in America

  • King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company (later the Virginia Company) and the northern half to the Plymouth Company.

  • Jamestown was formed

  • More men and supplies sent to Jamestown

    Not only to help the failing colony but boost the tobacco growth

  • First African slaves came over to the new world In Jamestown to help with tobacco growth

  • Pilgrims came over for religous freedom in Massachusetts

  • The first thanksgiving

  • Crown gave Cecilius Calvert 12 million acres of land to form the colony of Maryland

  • William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylavania

  • War between England and France was officially declared, The french and Indian war,To send England in debt for the revolutionary war

  • Treaty of Paris signed, Gave England the terretories. England, in debt, taxed the colonies until they were 100% fed up and later revolted

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