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English Settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London Chartered by King James 1 established the first permanent English Settlement in North America at a place that they named Jamestown, Virginia. -
In late August, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed in Point Comfort abroad the English privateer ship White Lion. In Virginia these Africans were traded in exchange for Supplies. This marked the beginning of the first African slaves in the British colonies. -
The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their own town. The pilgrims established it in Plymouth Massachusetts. The leadership came from the religious congregations from Brownists, or Separatist Puritans who had fled from religious persecution in England for the Tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands. This was the first permanent colony of Massachusetts. -
The Maryland Toleration Act is also known as the Act Concerning Religion. It was passed on April 21, 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland Colony in St.Mary's City. The bill granted freedom of conscience to all Christians. The law also made it a crime to blaspheme God, the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, or the early apostles and evangelists. It also forbade one resident from referring to another's religion in a disparaging way and it provided for honoring the sabbath. -
The Navigation Acts declared by the British Parliament that only English Ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American Colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar to England. This affected the colonists because it restricted their trade. This Act was specifically aimed to weaken Dutch control over American and European markets. -
Isaac Newton devised a reflecting telescope. Instead of a lens it used a single curved main mirror and a smaller flat mirror. He built this in order to prove his theory that white light is composed of a spectrum of colors. -
King Philips War began in 1675 and ended in 1676. This war was an armed conflict between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northern Woodlands and the New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. The underlying cause of this war was the colonists' unrelenting desire for more and more land. But the sudden outbreak of the war was the execution of three of Metacom's men by the colonists. During the war more than of New England's towns were attacked by Natives. -
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers and took place in 1676-1677. Causes for the war were high taxes, low prices for tobacco, and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor which was Sir William Berkeley. This rebellion was the most serious challenge to royal authority before the American Revolution as well as the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and whites indentured servants in colonial Virginia. The victory went to Berkeley. -
The Glorious Revolution in England stemmed from religious and political conflicts. It led to the establishment of an English Nation that limited the power of the king and provided protections for English subjects. This ended up removing King James ll from England's Throne. The English leaders helped William of Orange invade England and overthrow the king. -
The Salem witch trials started In may of 1692 when the local magistrates began an interrogation. Over the course of these investigations and interrogation it caused 19 convicted witches to be hanged and a lot of other suspects to be imprisoned in the Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.