1607 - Jamestown founded

1607 - Henry Hudson's first voyage

1608 - Quebec founded
 
   

1619 - First General Assembly in Virginia - First African workers brought to Virginia

1620 - Mayflower lands at Cape Cod - Mayflower Compact

1621 - First Thanksgiving

1624 - Dutch "purchase" Manhattan
 
 
 

1630 - Gov. John Winthrop leads Puritans to Massachusetts Bay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1635 - Roger Williams founds Providence, Rhode Island

1636 - Harvard College founded

1637 - Anne Hutchison banished from Massachusetts
 
 

1640's - Sugar cultivation and slavery in West Indies

1608 - Capt. John Smith explores Chesapeake Bay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1629 - George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, sails to Virginia - dies in 1632

1631 - Kent Island trading post and farming settlement founded

1632, June 20 - Maryland Charter granted to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore

1633, Nov. 22 - English settlers on Ark and Dove set sail from Cowes, England, for Maryland

1634, March 25 - Landing of settlers at St. Clement's Island

1635, Feb. 26 - First General Assembly meets at St. Mary's City
 
 
 

1638 - Assembly claims protections of English law

1639 - First elections in province for delegates to Assembly
 
 
 

1645 - Ingle's Rebellion against proprietary government

1648, Jan. 21 - Margaret Brent denied right to vote in General Assembly
 

1649 - Governor Stone invites Virginia Puritans to settle in Maryland

1649, April 21 - Religious toleration law

1606 - Rembrandt born
 

1610 - Louis XIII becomes king of France

1618 - 48 - The 30 Years War in Germany and Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 

1624 - Cardinal Richelieu, first minister of France

1625 - Charles I succeeds James I in England
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1642-49 - English Civil War

1643 - Louis XIV (Bourbon) assumes throne of France
 
 

1648 - The Fronde revolution begins in France - the Peace of Westphalia settles war in Germany

1649 - Charles I executed in London - Oliver Cromwell named Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth