Top 20 U.S. Colonization Events 1607-1754 By KerriganGe 1607 Jamestown Established 1609 600 New Colonists Arrive 1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe 1616 European Plague in Native New England 1618 Virginia Company Introduces the Headright System 1619 House of Bugesses 1620 English Separatists aka “Pilgrims” Found Plymouth Colony 1621 Dutch Colonize New Netherland 1622 Powhatan Attack 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony Established 1637 Pequot War 1651 Parliament Passes the Navigation Acts 1675 Settler-Native Clash in Virginia 1675 King Philip's War 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1681 William Penn Receives Charter for Pennsylvania 1682 Penn Creates Treaty with Natives 1686 Dominion of New England 1707 Virginia Slave Code 1754 Seven Years War
