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The Vikings are people who came from Scandinavia and first arrived in America. Leif Ericsson and 35 other Vikings explored the coast of Labrador ans stayed the winter in Newfoundland.
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Europeans redisovered his books
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Columbus and his three ships left Spain in August 1492. They landed in Bahamas which is called Watling Islands today.
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Columbus left for his second voyage with 17 ships and 1200 colonists. He landed in Hispaniola.
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In 1497, the king of england sent John Cabot to find a western route to Asia.
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Columbus split his fleet of six ships, three would make for Hispaniola immediately to bring desperately needed supplies, while the other three would aim for points south of the already explored Caribbean to search for more land and perhaps even the route to the orient that Columbus still believed to be there.
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Spanish troops, led by Diego Velazquez, conquered Cuba.
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Juan Ponce de Leon, the spanish governor of Puerto Rico, discovered Flordia in 1513.
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Luther was expelled from the Catholic Church, but his ideas continued to spread rapidly across western Europe.
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The French King sent Giovanni da Verrazano to map the North American coastline.
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King Henry VIII asked the Pope to annul his marriage.
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England was producing mare wool than Europeans would buy, and the price fell.
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Fur-particularly beaver fur-had become very fashionable in Europe.
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England granted the Virginia Company permission to establish colonies in Virginia.
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To escape this persecution one group of Separatist fled to Holland in 1608.
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In 1609 the Dutch East India Company hired an English navigator named Henry to find a route through North America to the Pacific.
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In 1614 the Virginia Company had hired Captain John Smith to explore the region.
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In September 1620, 102 passengers set off on the journey across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower.The trip took 65 days.
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The company (Massachusetts Bay Company) had already received a royal charter to create a colony in New England.
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A young minister named Roger Williams arrived in Boston.
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The Maryland Toleration Act is the act granting religious toleration to all Christians in Maryland and was intended to protect the Catholic minority from the Protestants.
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Sir William Berkley, governor of Virginia dominate Virginia's society.
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Charles II assumed the throne. He and his advisers were determined to generate wealth for Egland by regulating trade and expanding the colonies in America.
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France's king Louis XIV seized control to new France and made it a royal colony.
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Parliament passed another navigation act called Staple Act. The act required everything the colonies imported to come through England.
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King Charles decided that the time had come to seize New Netherland.
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William Penn became involved in Quaker attempts to create a colony in the 1670.
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War erupted between the backcounty settles and Native Americans.
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In 1675 King Charles II appointed a committee called the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to oversee colonial trade and advice him about problems.
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James II succeeded his brother Charles to the English throne.
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Parliament read the English Bill of Rights to William and Mary, outlining what would be required of them.
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General James Oglethorpe, a wealthy member of Parliaments, was appalled to find that many people in England were in prison simply because they could not pay their debts.
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Between 1720 and 1770, wheat prices more than doubled in the colonies.
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A Massachusetts preacher and philosopher named Jonathan Edwards aimed to restore New Englands spiritual intensity after experiencing his own conversion.
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75 Africans gathered near the Stono River, attacked their white overseers, stole their guns, and raced south toward Florida, attacking whites as they traveled.
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The Great Awakening began in earnest when the Anglican minister George Whitefield arrived in Philadelphia in 1739.
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Enlightenment writer Baron published his work Spirit of the Laws in 1748.
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By 1760 Philadelphia had over 23,000 people, making it the largest colonial city.
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Spanish missionaries led by the Franciscan priest Junipero Serra took control of Calfornia by establishing a chain of missions from San Diego to San Francisco.
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By 1775, more than100,000 Germans had arrived in the colony, where they made up about one-third of the population.
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Btween 10 and 12 million Africans were transported on the jouney know as the Middle Passage.
