Pre-Revolution (jan 1, 1600 – jan 1, 1700)
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1600s
1607 – Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, founded in the Colony of Virginia.
1610s
1614 – Dutch claim New Netherland.
1619 – Slavery introduced to the Colony of Virginia.
1620s
The Mayflower in Plymouth.
1620 – Mayflower Compact signed.
1625 – Foundation of New York City as New Amsterdam.
1628 – Massachusetts Bay Colony founded.
1630s
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the founder of Maryland
1630 – Winthrop Fleet to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1630 – Manor of Rensselaerswyck founded.
1634 – Province of Maryland founded.
1634 – Theologian Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1635 – Connecticut Colony founded by Thomas Hooker.
1636 – Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations founded by Roger Williams.
1636 – Harvard College founded.
1637 – New Haven Colony founded.
1637 – Pequot War ends in New England.
1638 – Delaware Colony founded.
1638 – New Sweden established.
1639 – Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony signed.
1639 – Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted.
1640s
1640 – French and Iroquois Wars escalate to full warfare.
1643 – New England Confederation created
1643–1645 – Kieft's War in New Netherland
1644–1646 – Third Anglo–Powhatan War
1649 – Maryland Toleration Act
1649 – Execution of King Charles I and establishment of Commonwealth in England.
1650s
1655–1660 – Peach Tree War
1659–1663 – Esopus Wars
1660s
New Amsterdam is captured by the English
1660 – British republic collapses, Charles II becomes King
1662 – Halfway Covenant adopted
1663 – King Charles II grants charter for a new colony, Province of Carolina
1664 – New Amsterdam captured by the English at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
1667 – New Netherland ceded to England under Treaty of Breda
1669–1670 – John Lederer of Virginia explores the Appalachian Mountains
1670s
1670 – Charles Town (Charleston) founded in present-day South Carolina
1671 – The Batts-Fallam expedition sponsored by Abraham Wood reaches the New River (West Virginia)
1672 – Blue Laws enacted in Connecticut
1672–1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette explore the Illinois Country
1674 – New Netherland permanently relinquished to English with Treaty of Westminster
1675 – King Philip's War (1675–76) in New England
1676 – Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
1677 – Province of Maine absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony
1679 – War between the Westo and colonial South Carolina results in the destruction of the Westo.
1680s
William Penn signing a treaty with the Native Americans of Pennsylvania
1680 – Pueblo Revolt in Spanish New Mexico
1682 – Province of Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
1682 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle travels down the Mississippi River to its mouth
1685 – King Charles II dies and James II succeeds to throne, reducing colonial autonomy
1686 – Dominion of New England decreed
1687 – Yamasee Indians from Spanish Florida move to South Carolina, becoming an important ally of the English
1688 – Glorious Revolution deposes James II and replaces him with William III and Mary II
1689 – Dominion of New England ceases to exist as Governor is deposed.
1689 – King William's War (1689–1697), part of the wider War of the Grand Alliance, begins
A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials
1690s
1690 – Schenectady Massacre
1692 – Salem Witch Trials in colonial Massachusetts
1697 – King William's War ends in North America with the Treaty of Ryswick
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