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King Henry VIII started the Church of England while John Calvin started the Reformed churches for protestants -
After the queen died, King James ascended to the throne, and he ordered all private religious services to stop and made it a crime to not become part of the Church of England -
104 English men and boys arrived to North America to start a settlement. -
The Pilgrims set up on foot across 60 miles of open countryside beginning an amazing journey that ended 13 years later in America -
The pilgrims made it to Holland, but they never felt like home, so they moved nine years later to Virginia to have freedom on religion -
A ship called the Mayflower was docked at the English court of Plymouth loaded supplies for a long voyage, to take 102 people across the Atlantic Ocean to America. Half of these people were pilgrims. -
The Plymouth colonists celebrated their crops and the colony’s great progress with at three days festival which is now known as Thanksgiving Day -
The puritans join to the pilgrims -
A group of young girls accused some women of casting a spell on them, hundreds of people were accused during April 1692 - September 1692 -
The two colonies separated and became North Carolina and South Carolina -
Land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century. -
The French and Indian War also known as the seven years' war
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Two English mathematicians, Charles Mason and Jaremiah Dixon began surveying the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. -
Requires that many printed materials carry a tax stamp -
Thirteen colonies had admired the colonists in America who were citizens of Great Britain and subject to King George. -
A crowd abuses British troops and throw small objects. 5 men are killed, one of them is Crispus Attucks, who is mixed-race -
Some colonist dressed as Native Americans attack three ships carrying tea -
The beginning of the American Revolutionary War -
Thomas Paine publishes a pamphlet called “Common sense” -
The declaration of Independence was ratified by Congress. -
After a siege, the British Army surrenders this effectively ended the conflict