U.S. History Timeline | Colonial America (1607–1764)

Jamestown, a mural by Bruce McPherson

Timeline for Colonial America

1607, May 14: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.

1609: Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River and Delaware Bay for the Dutch.

1610: Santa Fe in New Mexico is established by Spain.

1612: The Dutch established a fur trading center with the Native Americans on Manhattan Island.
1614: Dutch claimed New Netherlands, extending from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod.

1617-19: Smallpox killed roughly 90% of the indigenous people of Massachusetts Bay. The devastation is known as Great Dying 1619-1619.

1619: The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown.
1619, July 30: The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia.

1620, December 11: The Plymouth Colony (present day Massachusetts) was established by Pilgrims from England. Before disembarking from their ship, the Mayflower, 41 male passengers sign the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that forms the basis of the colony's government.

1622, March 22: Jamestown Massacre (Indian Massacre of 1622) in Virginia, resulted in the death of 347 English settlers.

1624: Timeline for Colonial America

• Virginia becomes a royal colony with King James I revoking the Virginia Company's charter.
• New Amsterdam (New York) was founded by the Dutch West India Company.

1629: Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded.
1632: Province of Maryland is founded.
1636: Timeline for Colonial America

• Establishment of Harvard College.
• Connecticut Colony and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations were founded.
• Pequot War started in July.

1637: New Haven Colony was founded.
1638, September: The Treaty of Hertfort ended Pequot War in New England.
1640: First book printed in the United States, The Bay Psalm, is produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1650: Colonial population is estimated at 50,400.
1655, September 15: Peach Tree War between Natives and Dutch colonists, resulted in Native victory.
1659-1663: Esopus Wars was fought between Esopus tribe and Dutch settlers in Ulster County, New Amsterdam.
1664, September: English seizes New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York, at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1665: The Duke's Laws were issued.
1696: Father Eusebio Kino explores northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
1670, September 2: Charles Town (present day Charleston) was founded in present-day South Carolina.
1676: Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia; Bacon writes the "Declaration of the People of Virginia".
1677: Colonists in North Carolina rebel against Governor Thomas Miller, provoked by British Navigation Acts.
1679: War between the Westo natives and colonial South Carolina resulted in the destruction of the Westo.
1681: William Penn had received a royal charter from Charles II to establish Pennsylvania.
1690, September 25: The Public Occurrences, first newspaper issue in the English colonies is published in Boston.
1693: Timeline for Colonial America

• College of William & Mary, the second oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia.
• Rice culture is introduced in the Province of Carolina.

1701: The Collegiate School at Saybrook (later renamed as Yale College) is founded in Connecticut.
1706: Benjamin Franklin born in Boston.
1711, Sept. 22- 1715, Feb. 11: Tuscarora War, the bloodiest colonial war was fought between North Carolina and their native allies and the Tuscarora people and their allies.
1712, April 6: New York Slave Revolt of 1712 occurred, making 6 white injured 9 slave owners dead.

1715, April 14: Yamasee War started in South Carolina, resulted with colonial victory in 1717.
1725, December 15: Father Rale's War ended, which had been started in 25 July, 1722.
1729: City of Baltimore is founded.

1732: The Province of Georgia is founded by General James Oglethorpe.

1732, February 22: Birth of George Washington.
1739, September 9: The Stono Rebellion, the largest Slave Uprising in the British Mainland Colonies started in the Province of South Carolina.
1746, January 18: College of New Jersey (upgraded as Princeton University in 1896) is founded.

1752: Britain and the British colonies switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
1754, May 24: King's College (1754-1784) is founded, later renamed as Columbia College (1784-1896) before becoming Columbia University.

1759, September 13: Final conflict of French and Indian War or Seven Years War; between the British and French for control of eastern North America. The British won a decisive victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec.

1763, February 10: With the Treaty of Paris, the British formally gain control of Canada and all the French possessions east of the Mississippi.

1764: Sugar Act or American Revenue Act was passed by British Parliament to meet a portion of the war cost.

Colonial British American Flag, after 1707

Timeline for Colonial America

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