Planting Colonies in North America

1513 Ponce de Leon explored Florida for the Spanish

1528 Panfilo de Narvaez arrived in Florida. Finding no gold, sailed toward Mexico; only two survived to reach Mexico City; one survivor, Cabeza de Vaca, popularized the story of Cibola

1539 First Spanish expedition into New Mexico under Franciscan Marcos de Niza

1540-41 Coronado expedition
1598 Juan de Onate leads Spanish into New Mexico
1609 Spanish found Santa Fe
1680 Pueblo Revolt
1698 Spanish complete reconquest of Pueblos

1607 English establish Virginia at Jamestown

1622 Indian uprising
1676 Bacon's Rebellion

1608 French found Quebec

1625 Jesuit missionaries arrive in New France

1620 Pilgrim emigration to Plymouth; Mayflower Compact

1624 Dutch settle New Amsterdam

1629 Puritans begin settlement of Massachusetts Bay

1630 Winthrop arrives with charter; Boston established
1635 Banishment of Roger Williams
1637 Banishment of Anne Hutchinson

1634 Maryland settled as proprietary colony guaranteeing toleration for all Christians

1689 Protestant Association insurgency
1691 Maryland became a royal colony
1715 Maryland government restored to proprietor

1636 Settlement of Rhode Island by Williams, Hutchinson, Gorton, and others

1644 Rhode Island granted a charter by Puritan Parliament

1636-37 New Haven Colony founded

1665 Reluctantly agreed to annexation by Connecticut

1637 New Sweden settled on the Delaware

1655 Dutch took the Swedish colony

1639 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1649-60 Period of Puritan ascendancy in England; end of Great Migration

1661-64 Conquest of New Netherland by the English

1664 New Amsterdam renamed New York
1673-74 Dutch reoccupation of New York
1674 Formally ceded to English in Treaty of Westminster

1664 Proprietary grant for New Jersey

1676 Division of province into East and West Jersey
1679 Andros attempted to include East Jersey in Dominion of N. E.
1692 Proprietors resumed control
1677 Proprietors of West Jersey issued Laws, Concessions, and Agreements
1682 William Penn had gained control of most of West Jersey
1702 Both Jerseys surrendered authority to crown; became a royal colony
1702-38 Governed by Governor of New York
1638 Separate Governor appointed for New Jersey

1663-65 Charters of the Carolinas

1669 Fundamental Constitutions
1677 Culpepper's Rebellion
1691 Albemarle (North Carolina) placed under a deputy
1729 North Carolina became a Royal colony

1675 King Philip's War

1680 By royal commission, New Hampshire was separated from Massachusetts and made a royal colony.

1681 William Penn received charter for Pennsylvania from Charles II

1682-1704 Delaware governed as part of Pennsylvania
1682 Pennsylvania Frame of Government
1692-94 Pennsylvania under royal rule
1701 Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties

1681 LaSalle explores the Mississippi and claims Louisiana for France

1684 Abrogation of Massachusetts Charter

1685 Creation of Dominion of New England with Sir Edmund Andros as governor, to govern Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire plus New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

1689 Glorious Revolution in England (forced abdication of James II)

1689 King William's War (first Anglo-French War fought in North America)
1689 Colonial reaction to Glorious Revolution
Sir Edmond Andros sent home; end of Dominion of New England
Leisler's Rebellion in New York
Protestant Association overthrow of Maryland government and ending of its policy of religious toleration

1689 Act of Toleration in England

1701 English impose royal governments on colonies other than Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania

1732 Royal charter granted to trustees of Georgia for 21 years

1752 Charter surrendered; Georgia became a royal colony