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Feb 13, 1451
Columbus was born
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Period: Sep 27, 1451 to May 20, 1506
Culumbus era
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Feb 13, 1492
1st voyage to the new world
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Sep 27, 1493
had his 2nd voyage to the new world
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Feb 13, 1498
3rd voyage to the new world
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Feb 13, 1502
4th voyage to the new world
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Period: Feb 13, 1505 to
Colonial Time Line
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May 20, 1506
Columbus died
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1st english colony Roanoke was established later failed
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John smith and other english settlers establish Jamestown
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Pilgrims land at plymouth
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Puritans founded massachusetts bay
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William Penn receives charter for Pennsylvania
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English takes New Amsterdam from the dutch
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Salem withchcraft trrials are held
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Circa population reaches 257,000
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enslaved african americans revolt in stono
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Period: to
road to revolution
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Population of the english colonies passes the one million mark
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proclomation of 1763 issued
Told the coloniest that they couldnt settle west of the Appalachian mountians -
sugar act passed
The sugar act placed a tax on sugar,mollasses,and other products that were shiped to the colonies -
quartering act passed
THis act requiered colonests to house british soldiers -
stamp act passed
This act required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp show that the tax had been paid -
stamp act repealed declaratory act passed
The declaritory act said that parliament had suprem authority to govern th colonies -
Town shed act passed
The townshed act stated that the New York asembly line was to be suspended until the New Yorkers agred to provide housing for the troops -
Boston massacre, Townshed act repealed
The same day that the Townshed act was repealed A group of british soilders opened fire into a crowd of protesters -
Tea act passed
This act did exactly what it sounds like It added a tax on the tea -
Intolerable acts passed
One of the things this act did was close boston harbor -
British troops ordered to Lexington and Concord
In respons to Britin moving their troops to Lexington and concord The coloniol Milita fought the british troops