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1493 | Pope Alexander VI publishes bull Inter cetera divina dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal |
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1494 | Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between Spain and Portugal GO ! |
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1515 | Ponce de Leon first explores Florida |
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1526 | Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón attempts to establish a settlement in South Carolina |
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1526 | SC - San Miguel de Guadalupe was established by settlers from Hispanolia |
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1535 | Cortés founds a base at Bay of La Paz, first CA settlement |
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1539 | De Soto explores FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, AL, MS |
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1540 | Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores AZ, NM, CO (to 1542) |
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1564 | French attempt to establish a colony in FL (Fort Caroline) |
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1565 | Spanish build a fort at St. Augustine (FL) |
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1570 | Iroquois League founded (date approx) |
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1585 | Raleigh's Roanoke Island Settlement GO ! |
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1590 | Roanoke found deserted |
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1598 | Colony of New Mexico settled |
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1598 | Don Juan de Oñate and Franciscans make first permanent settlement in NM |
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1606 | First Virginia Charter GO ! |
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1607 | Settlement in Maine by the Plymouth Company (fails) |
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1610 | Sante Fe established as capital of New Mexico |
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1613 | Eng. colonists in Virginia destroy Fr. settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia; prevent Fr. colonisation of Maryland |
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1614 | Virginian colonists prevent Fr. settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia |
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1616 | Captain John Smith publishes A Description of New England GO ! |
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1617 | First shipment of tobacco out of Virginia |
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1619 | First representative colonial assembly in America held at Jamestown, VA |
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1619 | First English missionaries - 50 Anglicans, sent to Virginia, first slaves from Africa land in Virginia |
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1620 | Pilgrim Fathers, leave Plymouth, England, in "Mayflower" and found Plymouth Colony in Mass. GO ! |
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1622 | Algonquians attack settlers, result is a fierce new Indian policy |
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1624 | Virginia Company charter annulled; Virginia becomes crown colony |
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1624 | Dutch W. India Co. settlement in "New Netherlands" |
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1624 | "Fort Orange" settlement by Dutch (later becomes Albany, NY) |
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1626 | Peter Minuit, director-general of Dutch West India Company's settlement in N. America, buys the entire Island of Manhattan from native Indian chiefs |
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1626 | Dutch colony of New Amsterdam founded on Hudson river |
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1630 | John Winthrop, Engl. Puritan leader, sails with Plymouth Company's expedition, founds Boston - the "Great Migration" |
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1632 | Charles I grants 10 million acres to Lord Baltimore - the land is named "Terra Maria" (Mary-land) GO ! |
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1633 | Dutch settle in Connecticut |
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1636 | Founding of Providence, Rhode Island |
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1636 | Windsor settlement - first settlement in CT |
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1636 | Beginning of Pequot War GO ! |
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1637 | Boston trial and banishment of Ann Hutchinson at the climax of the Antinomian Controversy |
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1637 | Eng. emigration to America restricted by royal proclamation |
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1637 | Narragansetts join New Englanders against Pequots |
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1637 | NJ -Swedes settle colony on the Delaware river (New Sweden) |
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1638 | 21 September - The Treaty of Hartford ends Pequot War: Surviving Pequot are divided as slaves among Indian allies and English, Pequot forbidden to inhabit former Pequot territory, and
the name Pequot is to be expunged |
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1641 | General Court of Massachusetts Bay Company codifies 100 laws |
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1641 | French settle in Michigan |
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1642 | Virginia passes a fugitive slave law |
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1643 | Confederation of New England formed GO ! |
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1644 | Third Anglo-Indian War (Virginia) |
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1646 | End of third Anglo-Indian War |
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1649 | Maryland Assembly passes act of toleration, professing belief in the Holy Trinity GO ! |
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1649 | Puritan exiles from Virginia settle in Providence, Md. |
