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The East India Company was founded to bridge the English with the East Indian spice trade.
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The Dutch East India Company is founded with the goal of monopolizing the East India spice trade.
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England and Scotland are united with the crowning of James I of England and IV of Scotland.
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Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first part of Don Quixote which turns out to be the first modern novel.
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The Virginia Company of London is founded by James I in order for the colonization of the New World by Britan.
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Jamestown is founded by the Virginia Company which was the first permanent English colony on the American mainland.
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Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain in order for the French to advance in the fur-trade.
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Bermuda is colonized by the British and becomes the first island in the New world to be colonized by them.
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Jamestown and the Native Powhatans fight over arising tensions only to end with the negotiation over the freedom of Pocahontas.
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Protestants fight Catholic oppression; Sweden invades Germany and Poland attacks Russia; Spain loses its dominant position in Europe after losing the Netherlands; France became a powerful force in Europe; Sweden gained control of the Baltic area.
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The first slaves in the New World arrive in Jamestown carried by an English ship flying a Dutch flag.
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The House of Burgesses was founded in Virginia and met for important matters and created laws.
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Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower.
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The Dutch west Company is founded in order to launch economic warfare against Spain and Portugal
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New Hampshire is founded by John Mason.
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New Netherlands is founded for profitable purposes by the Dutch West Company.
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Virginia becomes a royal colony and the House of Burgesses is restricted.
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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan island for the Dutch from Native Americans for trinkets worth $24. The island is renamed New Amsterdam.
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British colonize the island of Barbados
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Boston is founded by John Winthrop
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Maryland Colony was founded in 1632 as a safe haven for English Catholics fleeing anti-Catholic persecution in Europe by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore.
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Williamsburg is founded as a middle plantation
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Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance.
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Connecticut is founded by Thomas Hokker after leaving Massachusetts.
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Delaware is founded by the New Sweden Company.
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Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I, against Roundheads, parliamentary forces; Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists; Parliament demands reforms; Charles I offers concessions, brought to trial and later beheaded.
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Parliament in England passes the first of the Navigation Acts.
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George Fox begins preaching in England, creating a movement known as the Society of Friends, later known as Quakers.
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The British in Jamaica turn the island into the major slave market of the West Indies.
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Puritan government collapses after Oliver Cromwell dies and his son resigns.
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Louis XIV grants New France the status of a royal province and colonists quickly go to North America.
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King Charles II, gave a group of eight noblemen a large tract of land to the south of Virginia colony.
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New Amsterdam passes to English control, and English and Dutch settlers live together peacefully. New Amsterdam changes to New York. New Jersey is also given to the English.
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The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish after being mistreated by the system of Encomienda.
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The colony of Pennsylvania is founded for Quakers by William Penn.
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Robert de la Salle travels down the Mississippi and claims the land for France; Robert names the area Louisiana.
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Salem experiences Witch trials and mass hysteria.
