Unit 3 Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • First Africans arrive in Virginia

  • Pilgrims sail on the mayflower to Plymouth Bay

  • Population of English colonies in America about 2,000

  • Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans

  • Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • English Civil War Starts

  • English Civil War Ends

  • Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia

  • Start of Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England

  • End of Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England

  • Start of Leisler's Rebellion in New York

  • End of Leisler's Rebellion in New York

  • Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended

  • Population of English colonies in America about 250,000

  • New York City slave revolt

  • South Carolina slave revolt