Thirteen Colonies Project

By SarahCatherinez
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  • England’s King James I held a conference to meet with Protestant leaders.

  • A company of English merchants asked the Crown for the right to found a new settlement in North America.

  • English colonies found the Jamestown settlement in present-day Virginia.

  • 400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown.

  • Only 60 colonists were still alive in Jamestown.

  • The first edition of the King James Version of the Bible is published.

  • John Rolfe introduced a new variety of tobacco.

  • John Rolfe married Pocahontas.

  • Pocahontas died while visiting England.

  • The first representative assembly in North America is formed in Virginia.

  • The first Africans came to Virginia on a Dutch ship.

  • A ship called the Mayflower left England with more than 100 men, woman, and children aboard.

  • The Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact.

  • The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

  • England experienced an economic downturn, costing many people their jobs.

  • Colonists killed a Powhatan leader.

  • The English Crown canceled the London Company’s charter.

  • Charles I became king and raised taxes.

  • A group of Puritans and merchants began planning a Puritan colony in North America.

  • A fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists left England for Massachusetts.

  • The Great Migration begins as thousands of people leave England to settle in colonies or other European countries.

  • Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • About 200 colonists arrived in Maryland to start a settlement.

  • John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College.

  • Thomas Hooker helps draft the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

  • A growing number of Protestants began moving to Maryland.

  • The General Court became a two-house legislature.

  • Roger Williams received a charter for his small settlement in Rhode Island.

  • King Charles I of England is overthrown and executed.

  • Maryland passes the Toleration Act, which promotes religious freedom.

  • Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida to eight of his supporters.

  • The Duke of New York made Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley proprietors of New Jersey.

  • The Hudson Bay Company is formed to trade in the Hudson Bay region of North America.

  • Colonial settlement in South Carolina began.

  • King Philip’s war began.

  • Bacon’s Rebellion begins in Virginia.

  • King Philip’s war ends.

  • New Hampshire became a royal colony.

  • King Charles II agreed to grant William Penn a charter to begin a colony west of New Jersey.

  • Peter the Great becomes czar of Russia.

  • The Salem witch trials take place in Massachusetts.

  • About 70 percent of men and 45 percent of women could read and write.

  • East and West Jersey are united into the single royal colony of New Jersey.

  • North and South Carolina became separate colonies.

  • The British government bought South Carolina from the original proprietors.