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1651 | Eng. Navigation Act, gives Eng. ships monopoly of foreign trade GO ! |
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1652 | First law against slavery in North America enacted in Rhode Island |
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1660 | More comprehensive Navigation Act |
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1662 | Halfway Covenant adopted |
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1662 | Virginia - law passed stating that children born to a slave mother are also bound for life (slavery is now self-perpetuating) |
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1663 | Charles II grants 'Carolina' charter to 8 proprietors GO ! |
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1664 | Maryland Colony passes a law mandating lifetime servitude for black slaves, first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law |
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1664 | New Amsterdam becomes New York after Governor Peter Stuyvesant's surrender to English forces |
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1665 | Colony of New Jersey founded |
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1665 | New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia pass laws making slavery a lifelong sentence |
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1667 | Christian baptism no longer affects legal status of slaves |
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1669 | John Locke's constitution for Carolina approved, S. Carolina founded GO ! |
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1670 | Hudson's Bay Company incorporated by royal charter to trade in region of N. America draining into Hudson Bay |
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1672 | King Charles II of England charters the Royal African Company, which dominates the slave trade to North America for the next half century |
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1675 | King Philip's War starts GO ! |
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1675 | Bacon's Rebellion GO ! |
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1675 | Lords of Trade established: attempt to regulate colonial affairs and enforce uniformity |
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1675 | English take "New Netherlands", colony becomes New York |
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1676 | Virginia Assembly - reform laws |
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1676 | America's first draft laws - response to King Philip's War |
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1678 | End of King Philip's War |
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1680 | NM - Pueblo Revolt |
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1681 | William Penn receives charter for land which will become Pennsylvania GO ! |
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1682 | Virginia - law establishing the racial distinction between servants and slaves is enacted |
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1682 | LaSalle claims LA for France |
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1683 | Peace treaty between William Penn and N. American Indians |
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1684 | Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked |
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1685 | LaSalle settlement in Texas |
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1686 | Governor Andros appointed to rule over the "Dominion of New England", attempts to consolidate the colonies |
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1689 | Colonists rebel against Andros |
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1689 | Protestant Revolution in MD |
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1689 | NY - Leisler Rebellion |
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1689 | 12 May - King William's War begins when Montreal is raided by Indians who are allied with the English GO ! |
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1691 | Virginia "anti-amalgamation" law |
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1691 | New charter for Massachusetts (church membership no longer a voting requirement) |
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1692 | Salem witchcraft trials begin |
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1692 | Crown rule; Maryland governed as a royal colony rather than as a proprietary province. |
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1693 | All fugitive Africans who have escaped slavery in the British colonies and fled to Florida are granted their freedom by the Spanish monarchy |
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1697 | 30 September - King William's War ends with the Treaty of Ryswick |
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1701 | Iroquois set policy of neutrality |
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1702 | 4 November - Queen Anne's War begins when the French and their Indian allies attack some New England settlements in the frontier GO ! |
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1704 | Carolinians formally align with Creek Indians and sack the Spanish missions in Florida |
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1705 | Virginia Black Code |
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1709 | 14,000 inhabitants of the Palatinate emigrate to North America |
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1710 | Carolina colony divided into North and South |
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1711 | Virginia legislation appropriates funds to extirpate all Indians |
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1711 | NC - Tuscarora War |
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1713 | 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War |
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1715 | SC - Yamasee War |
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1718 | French found New Orleans |
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1718 | City of San Antonio founded by the Spanish |
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1724 | Jewish settlers are exiled from the Louisiana colony |
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1729 | Natchez uprising in LA |
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1733 | Molasses Act |
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1735 | John Peter Zenger trial on freedom of the press issues |
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1739 | The Cato revolt |
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1739 | War of Jenkin's Ear begins |
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1739 | Stono (slave) Rebellion in SC |
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1740 | Land and Silver Bank Controversy |
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1744 | King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession GO ! |
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1747 | Riots in Boston over impressment |
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1748 | 18 October - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends King George's War, restoring the status quo ante in the colonies; general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
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1750 | Old Hop (KA-NA-GA-TO-GA) Ascends to the title of "Uku", or chief of the Cherokee; Cherokee organised for the purpose of dealing with the English and French |
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1754 | The Seven Years (French and Indian) War unofficially begins |
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1754 | Albany Plan GO ! |
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1755 | The French and Indian War officially begins in America GO ! |
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1758 | Treaty of Easton |
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1759 | Cherokee War against the English begins |
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1760 | Economic slump this decade |
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1761 | Cherokee War against the English ends |
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1763 | The Seven Years war ends with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg GO ! |
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1763 | Proclamation of 1763 orders that all land west of a line (roughly following the Appalachian crest) be reserved for Indians GO ! |
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1764 | Pontiac's Rebellion in Ohio valley |
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1763 | Pan-Indian Movement under Pontiac to drive the British out of the Ohio valley |
