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Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain during the fur trade.
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Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement was established
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First slaves brought to America for tobacco farming
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John Winthrop delivered the "City on a Hill Sermon" to describe the expectations of the Massachusetts Bay colony
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Massachusetts Bay Colony issues such as no taxation without representation and representative government are beginning to be addressed.
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Dutch colonists settle in the Delaware River area, after driving out English colonists from Virginia and Connecticut.
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First African marriage occurred between Anthony Van Angola, and Lucie D'Angola
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Kieft's War, New Netherland fights against the Hudson River Valley Indians
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The New England Confederation is founded
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The Dutch and the Hudson River Valley Indians sign a peace treaty, ending four years of war.
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The Maryland Toleration Act is passed by the colony's assembly, allowing for religious freedom.
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Peach Tree War, also known as the Peach War, was a large-scale attack by the Susquehannock Indians and allied tribes on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River in New York.
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Charles Town (Charleston) founded and would be today's South Carolina
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French Protestants seeking to emigrate after being criminalized in France
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Arkansas French Protestants established by Henri de Tonti as the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
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Also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.
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King William's War, the North American theater of the Nine Years' War.
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Albuquerque is founded by Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, governor and captain general of New Mexico
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The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the British Province of New York, of 23 enslaved Africans.
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Anglo-Spanish War breaks out mainly in the Carolinas
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The city of Baltimore in the Maryland colony is established. It is named after Lord Baltimore.
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Three uprisings of African-Americans occur in South Carolina resulting in numerous deaths.
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French and Indian War begins,also known as the Seven Years War
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Paul Revere rides and the Battle of Lexington at Concord occurs, being the first engagement of the American War of Independence.
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The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance which promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces
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British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders to Gen. George Washington Yorktown, VA
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George Washington take the presidential oath of office as the first President of the United States
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United States agrees to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, known as the Louisiana Purchase
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Lewis and Clark begins their journey from St. Louis, Mo
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Missouri Compromise to maintain the balance between free and slave states, Maine is added as a free state so that Missouri can be a slave state
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President Monroe declares that the American continents are off-limits for colonization by European powers via the Monroe Doctrine
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U.S. Constitution is ratified by nine states
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Great Britain formally acknowledges American independence in the Treaty of Paris
