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    American History 1600-1700 Timeline

  • Jamestown Founded

  • Quebec Founded

  • Santa Fe Established

  • First American Tobacco Crop Planted

  • Southern Slavery Begins

  • House of Burgesses Established

  • Plymouth Colony Founded

  • New Amsterdam Founded

  • Plymouth Colony and New Amsterdam Begin Trading

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded

  • John Winthrop is elected the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Pennsylvania Established

  • Maryland Established

    Established by Charles I
  • First School in America is founded in New Amsterdam.

  • First settlers for the new Maryland colony arrive in North America.

  • Providence Founded

  • The Township Act is passed in the Massachusetts Bay general court giving towns the ability to govern themselves to some extent.

  • Harvard University Founded

  • Connecticut Founded

  • New Netherland fights against the Hudson River Valley Indians who have been making raids against the colony.

  • The New England Confederation is formed.

  • Toleration Act passed in Maryland

  • Slavery Begins To Spread

  • Rhode Island Passes Law Banning Slavery

    First such law in the US.
  • The Anglo-Dutch War Begins

  • First Jewish Immigrants Arrive and Settle in New Amsterdam

  • Navigation Act Passed

  • First Bible to be Printed in America Published in Algonquin Language.

  • Carolinas Foudned

  • New Netherlands becomes New York

  • New Jersey Becomes Proprietary Colony

  • Carolina Territory is Extended to Florida

  • Massachusetts Annexes Maine

  • The Virginia Assembly Only Allows Landowners Right to Vote.

  • French Explorers Claim Interior of North America for King Louis XIV.

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    King Philip's War

  • The New England Confederation declares war on King Philip and each colony is required to provide men for a combined force.

  • Nathaniel Bacon, the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion or the Virginia Rebellion (1674–1676), is declared a traitor and arrested

  • Bacon writes the "Declaration of the People of Virginia"

  • The Province of New Hampshire is created out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony by royal degree of British King Charles II.

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    The Dominion of New England

  • William Penn publishes "The Excellent Privilege of Liberty and Property."

  • Massachusetts Begins Using Paper Money

  • Salem Witch Trials Begin