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1607 |
London Company established |
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Jamestown founded |
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1608 |
Québec founded by the French |
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1609 |
Hudson explores Hudson River for the Dutch |
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1610 |
Founding of Santa Fe |
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1611 |
First Virginia tobacco crop |
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1614 |
Fort Orange (Albany) founded by the Dutch |
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1619 |
Virginia House of Burgesses established |
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First African slaves arrive in Jamestown |
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1620 |
Plymouth colony founded |
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1622 |
Powhatan Confederacy attacks Virginia colony |
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1624 |
Dutch settle New Amsterdam |
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English colonize St. Christopher in Lesser Antilles |
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1630 |
Massachusetts Bay colony founded |
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1634 |
Maryland founded |
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1636 |
Williams expelled from Massachusetts Bay, founds Providence |
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1636 -
1637 |
Pequot War |
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1638 |
Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay |
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1640 |
Sugar cultivation begins on Barbados |
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1642 |
Montréal founded by the French |
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1675 -
1676 |
King Philip's war |
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1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
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1691 |
Massachusetts becomes royal colony |
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An interactive, expanded timeline for the period before 1876 can be found in Program 13.
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