Timeline and Terms

Events

Ácoma pueblo destroyed
Anne Bradstreet published
Ascension of Charles I
Ascension of James II
Bacon’s Rebellion
British colony established
Capture of New Netherland
Charter for William Penn
Circular Atlantic Trade
Company of New France established
Cromwell and Puritans in power in England
Dutch colonization along Hudson River
Dutch-Iroquois League established
Epidemic among American Indians in New England
Establishment of Acadia
First English child born in North America
First reservations established
Founding of St. Augustine
Free black settlement in Florida
French and Indian War
French in Mississippi Valley
French-Choctaw alliance
French-Huron alliance
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Glorious Revolution
Hartford established
House of Burgesses established
Jamestown established
John White in Roanoke
King Charles I executed
King George’s War
King Philip’s War
King William’s War
Leisler’s Rebellion
Louisiana claimed by French
Louisiana established
Mayflower Compact and Plymouth landing
New Amsterdam established
New Orleans established
Patents for colonization in North America
Peace of Paris
Pequot War
Powhatan attack on Virginia settlements
Providence founded
Pueblo Revolt
Quebec City founded
Queen Anne’s War
Raleigh received charter
Restoration of the monarchy
Roanoke found deserted
Sante Fe founded
Spanish Armada defeated
Spanish mission in Arizona
Texas colonized
Tobacco shipped from Virginia
Treaty of Utrecht
Two Treatises of Government
Winthrop fleet landed

People

Anne Bradstreet
Anne Hutchinson
Cotton Mather
Increase Mather
Jacob Leisler
John Smith
John Winthrop
Mary Rowlandson
Nathaniel Bacon
Opechancanough
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Samuel de Champlain
Solomon Stoddard
Squanto
Venture Smith
Walter Raleigh
William Bradford
William Penn

Places

Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Jamestown
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
New France
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Netherland
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Plymouth
Rhode Island
Roanoke
South Carolina
Spanish America
Virginia

Organizations

Dominion of New England
Dutch West India Company
Massachusetts Bay Company
Pilgrims
Plymouth Company
Quakers
Virginia Company of London