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First Colony Established
Jamestown, Virginia, established the first permanent english colony -
Founding Of Quebec
Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec -
Henry Hudsons Discovers the Hudson River
Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River in 1609 along with the Delaware Bay In order to help the Dutch. -
John Rolfe's Success
John Rolfe Starts the farming and harvesting of tobacco, a very popular cash crop, in Jamestown. This greatly increases the chances of the Colonies success. -
First Africans in Jamestown
First Africans in Virginia arrive at Jamestown along with the House of Burgesses being formed in Jamestown, the first democratically elected legislative body in English North America. -
Mayflower Compact/Founding of Plymouth Colony
In 1620 the Mayflower Compact was signed, and Plymouth Colony is founded in what would become Massachusetts, by the pilgrims that were aboard the Mayflower -
Indian Massacre
This is when the new government that came to fruition under the Powhatan tribe made the decision to form a surprise attack on 31 colonies. The colonies were forewarned by a young Indian boy and they attacked the tribe and their villages under the the disguise of a peace treaty. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded
A grant issued by the King of England compelled a group of puritans to establish the Colony under their governor John Winthrop. -
Founding of Boston
The founding of Boston occurred in 1630. It was discovered and claimed by English Puritans attempting to escape religious persecution. this caused a fleet of 11 ships carrying 700 people sailed from England to Massachusetts, into their safe place. -
Founding of Maryland
Maryland was founded in 1632, King Charles I approved the voyage of a ship into the area. Although like other settlements in the New World, the Maryland Colony only became another safe-haven for people who were religiously persecuted. -
Connecticut colony founded
When the Dutch created their first trading post on the Connecticut River valley it became what is now the town of Hartford. The move that the dutch had into the valley was part of the movement out of the Massachusetts colony as a whole -
Founding of the New Haven colony
the New Haven Colony was established in 1638 by Theophilus Eaton and the Reverend John Davenport. The two englishmen and their companions aimed to make the New haven colony a place of economic and religious prowess. -
King charles execution/commonwelth establishment
King Charles I was executed and there was an establishment of the Commonwealth in England -
First Quakers arrival in New England
Ann Austin and Mary Fisher were two Englishwomen that became the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship that was carrying them lands at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Commmonwealth of England collapses, Charles II is restored to the throne.
with no powers, then english still tried to make the Commonwealth work, but on top of the Constitutional mess that it was and the fact that the son of the executed king was unpopular, an Act of Parliament was actually passed declaring that the whole business of the initial commonwealth never actually happened. -
Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia; Bacon writes the "Declaration of the People of Virginia".
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. They responded to the racial caste of slavery by trying to divide the two races from soon-to-come united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705. -
Toleration Act of 1688 is passed by Parliament which gives limited freedom of religion to all English subject.
This Toleration act reliquished the citizens from religious law and allowed their freedom