Colonial Era Timeline

  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus encountered the new world for the first time

    Landed on an island and found people that he called indians because he thought he was in India
  • Period: Sep 10, 1530 to Sep 10, 1540

    French began fur trade with Indians

    Started fur trade in Canada
  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence

    Sailed up the St. Francis River into Canada
  • May 18, 1538

    Hernando de Soto’s expedition of the Southeast

    He begin to set sail for Florida. So that he could explore the Florida territory
  • Oct 2, 1541

    Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas

    He left to go an explore Kansas. in 1601 their was evidence that he explored Kansas
  • Aug 28, 1565

    Spanish establish St. Augustine, Florida

    Found st Augustine. Feast of of the hippo. Started building.
  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

    Looked for gold built houses and stuff
  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

    Explored North America and established the city of Qubec in the northrern colony of new France
  • Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe

    Founded a city at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which he called La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, holy city of Assisi
  • Jamestown, Virginia founded

    104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement.
  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

    boarded the Sea Venture, bound for Virginia.
  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

    Africans brought in by Dutch
  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

    100 men and women sailed to cape cod even tho half died during the journey
  • South Carolina colony founded

    Founded by 8 nobles with a royal charter from King Charles ll
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    Beaver Wars

    War fought between iroquois confederacy against the french and indian tribes
  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi

    Entered the Mississippi River in present day Arkansas
  • The Pueblo Revolt

    Uprising of a group of people against spanish colonizers in present day New Mexico
  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

    One of the first 13 found
  • Georgia Colony founded

    James Oglethorpe Founded Georgia