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HISTORY TIMELINE (1600-1699) By Gerald Murphy
DATE EVENT
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1601 Colony of Tadoussac founded
1602 Cape Cod named by Bartholemew Gosnold, English navigator who found it
1602 Vizcaino explores west coast from Gosnold to Buzzards Bay
1603 Martin Pring explores New England coast
1605 French trading post established at Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1605 Weymouth explores New England coast
1606 First charter granted to the Virginia Company, named after Virgin Queen
1607 Captain John Smith first encounters Iroquois in Chesapeake Bay
1607 Jamestown founded. First permanent English colony in New World
1607 English colony begun at Fort St. George, on Kennebec River, Maine
1608 Samuel de Champlain founds village of Quebec
1609 Champlain makes war against the Iroquois, 1st use of guns on Indians
1609 Hendrik "Henry" Hudson explores river valley named for him
1609 East Anglia Puritans leave England for Leiden, Holland for 10 year stay
1609 Dutch establish Fort Orange,now known as Albany,NY, as fur trading post
1609 Henry Hudson explores east coast of North America for Netherlands
1609 Santa Fe, New Mexico settled
1609 Kepler describes planetary motions and laws
1610 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson's Bay
1610 Thomas West, 3rd Lord de la Warr rescues Jamestown colony from starva.
1612 England colonizes Bermuda
1612 French explorers discover Lake Huron
1613 John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas, cross-breeds tobacco successfully
1614 Thomas Hunt kidnaps 24 Indians from Cape Cod area, sells them as slaves
1615 French under Champlain trade with local Indians on Georgian Bay
1616 Captain John Smith publishes "A Description of New England"
1616 Pocahontas visits England, poses for portrait; dies there
1616 White settlers introduce small pox toNew England. Many Indians die
1619 Black slavery introduced at Jamestown by Dutch traders
1619 First legislative assembly in America, in Virginia, July 30
1620 Slide rule invented by Oughtred, in England
1620 Puritan Pilgrims write Mayflower Compact, land at Plymouth Colony
1621 Pilgrims have first contact with Indian, who greets them in English!
1621 The Indian, Squanto, learned English in England after fleeing Spain
1622 Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason
1623 Champlain's expedition trades for furs with Indians on Lake Superior
1623 Settlements begin in New Hampshire
1624 Indians barter away Manhattan for about $24.00; Dutch begin settlements
1624 Virginia becomes a royal colony
1628 English Parliament enacts Petition of Right
1629 Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions for New Netherland granted
1629 Puritans settle Boston area, call themselves The Massachusetts-Bay Co.
1630 Puritans hang John Billington, a murderer; a first for the colony
1632 Mariland named for Queen Henrietta Maria by English King Charles I
1632 "Oyster War" begins between VA and MD; continues today
1634 Jean Nicolet explores Lake Michigan shore and Wisconsin
1635 Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts for espousing democracy
1635 First settlements in Connecticut include Hartford and Windsor
1636 First college in the colonies, later named after Rev. John Harvard
1636 Providence Plantations founded in Rhode Island by Roger Williams
1637 Pequot War in Connecticut and Rhode Island
1638 Swedish colony, near Wilmington, DE, introduces log-cabin building
1639 The Fundamental Orders unite three communities in "Connectecotte"
1639 Harvard College sets up first printing press in colonies
1640 First English book published in colonies is Bay Psalm Book; Cambridge
1641 "Body of Liberties" adopted in Massachusetts; precurses Bill of Rights
1642 Pascal invents an adding machine
1642 Massachusetts School Law requires schoolmaster in towns of 50 families
1642 French develop new trading post at Montreal
1643 Invention of the barometer
1643 New England Confederation founded. These are first 4 colonies to unite
1644 First bicameral legislature formed in Massachusetts
1644 Roger Williams publishes The Bloody Tenet of Persecution
1645 First ironworks, at Saugus, MA
1648 Iroquois defeat the Hurons, drive them into Canada, north of the Lakes
1649 Charles I executed; Oliver Cromwell establishes Commonwealth
1649 First Assembly in Maryland. Enacts Toleration Act, freeing religion
1651 Navigation Acts require English ships and crews for all imports
1653 Iroquois defeat the Erie Nation, extend influence into o-he-you. (Ohio)
1656 New Netherland Council passes ordinance restricting religion
1657 Rhode Island Assembly adopts freedom of religion; it doesn't last
1657 John Washington jumps ship in Virginia, buys land
1658 Birth of Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac; he dies in 1730
1661 William Penn deceives Delaware Indians, effectively steals Pennsylvania
1663 John Eliot translates Bible into an Indian tongue
1664 Dutch give up control of New Amsterdam
1665 Duke's Law established by Duke of York, who renames area for himself
1668 Sault Ste. Marie established by French missionaries
1669 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle explores Ohio River valley
1669 Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina inaugurated
1670 Newton gives the world The Calculus
1670 Grant from Charles II leads to settlement of Charleston, SC
1670 Hudson's Bay Company founded to compete with French fur traders
1673 Father Marquette and Louis Joilet journey down the Mississippi River
1673 Iroquois drive Mosopelea Indians from Southwestern Ohio
1673 Marquette and Joliet explore northern parts of Mississippi valley
1675 Indian "King Phillip" begins retaliatory war against white invaders
1676 Bacon's Rebellion wages vigilante war in Virginia
1676 First formally declared "Day of Thanksgiving" June 20, Charlestown, MA
1679 Settlements in what is now New Hampshire proclaimed a royal colony
1679 Habeas Corpus Amendment Act in England
1680 Robert LaSalle establishes a fort in Peoria
1680 Pueblo Indians get horses from Spanish; first Plains Indians to do so
1681 Province of Pennsylvania (Penn's Woodlands) chartered
1682 Philadelphia founded. Penn publishes Frame of Government
1682 LaSalle explores Mississippi River, claims river valley for France
1684 Charles II annuls 1629 charter of Massachusetts colony
1684 Cotton Mather coins the term "Americans" for colonists
1684 A patent is granted for the thimble
1685 Louis XIV cancels Edict of Nantes, thousands flee to the colonies
1688 First written protest against slavery, by Mennonites in Germantown, PA
1688 The Glorious Revolution establishes Parliamentary supremacy
1689 English Parliament enacts Bill of Rights, provides religious freedom
1689 Pensacola founded (again). (Spanish had tried there in 1559)
1690 First newspaper banned in the colonies is Publick Occurences, in Boston
1691 Plymouth becomes part of royal colony of Massachusetts
1692 Witch hunts in Salem, MA; 19 die
1693 William and Mary becomes second college in the colonies, Feb 6
1693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon, August 4
1695 Freedom of the press comes to England. Censorship abolished
1696 Habeas Corpus Act suspended in England
1696 Board of Trade takes over administration of the colonies
1697 Penn proposes a Plan of Union for the English Colonies in America
1699 Woolens Act.
1699 Cahokia and Biloxi founded
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