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A timeline of key events describing English settlements in North America.

Created by Mirabito on Nov 23, 2010

Last updated: 11/24/10 at 02:50 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Nov 23, 2010 1:39 PM

• Education in the Americas
  1633

  The first school in America is founded in New Amsterdam. This school later became Collegiate School, a private school for boys that still exists.

• The Mid-Atlantic
  1632

  King Charles I grants Lord Baltimore a royal charter to found the Maryland Colony. Since Baltimore is Roman Catholic, the right to religious freedom is granted to Maryland.

• No Taxation Without Representation
  1632

  In the Massachusetts Bay Colony issues such as no taxation without representation and representative government are beginning to be addressed.

• Dutch Settlers
  1630

  The Dutch West India Company begins to give land grants to patroons who will bring at least 50 settlers to the colonies.

• Massachusetts Bay
  1628

  A group of settlers led by John Endecott settle at Salem, Massachusetts. This begins the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• New York, New York
  1626

  Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland and later buys Manhattan from the Native Americans for items worth approximately $24. Which would be about $1,000 today. He then names the island New Amsterdam.

• New Hampshire
  1623

  First English settlement in New Hampshire is founded by David Thomas.

• Dutch West Indies Company
  1621

  The Dutch West Indies Company is chartered.

• The Mayflower
  1620

  The Pilgrims set sail from England to Cape Cod on the Mayflower. Plymouth Colony is founded in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They make a plan of government called the Mayflower Compact. John Carver was named the first governor of the colony.

• Government Established
  1619

  The first representative colonial assembly, the House of Burgesses, was formed in Virginia.

• Colonial Wedding
  1614

  Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

• Tobacco
  1612

  Tobacco planted for the first time by English colonists in Virginia.

• Starving Time
  1610

  All but 60 of the 500 settlers in Jamestown die.

• Hudson
  1609

  Henry Hudson explores the Delaware Bay and Hudson River.

• Jamestown Founded
  1607

  - Jamestown is founded under the patent of the London Company. Captain John Smith meets Pocahontas.
  http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=19705&title=Jamestown_Settlement

• Virginia Company
  1606

  Virginia Company of London is granted a Royal Charter to settle in the New World.

• Roanoke Island
  1585

  A colony is established on Roanoke Island.

• The Beginning
  1584

  Walter Raleigh funds an expeditionary voyage from Plymouth to America to investigate whether it would be possible to set up a colony.