Decades+of+Events+(page+2-3+of+blue+study+guide)

__HISTORICAL DATES__

1565- St. Augustine founded. 1585- Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”

1607- Jamestown founded- 1st successful English colony. 1609- Spanish found Sante Fe

1619- 1st Black African slaves arrive I Jamestown. 1619- House of Burgesses established in Jamestown. 1620- Pilgrims found Plymouth Colony.

1624- Dutch establish New Netherlands along the Hudson River. 1630- Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by Puritans.

1632- Lord Baltimore founded Maryland. 1636- Roger Williams founded Rhode Island. 1636- Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut. 1636-Harvard College established. 1638- Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts. 1638- New Sweden established. (Delaware) 1639- Connecticut’s Fundamental Orders drafted.

1649- Maryland’s Act of Toleration.

1651- England passes 1st Navigation Act.

1662- Halfway Covenants. (Massachusetts) 1663- Carolina founded. 1664- New Netherlands taken over by the British--becomes New York. 1664- New Jersey founded.

1672- Joliet and Marquette explore Mississippi River. 1675-1676- King Philip’s War. 1676- Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia.

1681- William Penn founded Pennsylvania. 1682- LaSalle explorers Mississippi River and claims it and the Gulf of Mexico. 1686-1689- Dominion of New England. 1689- King William’s War. 1689- Leisler’s Rebellion in New York.

1691- Spain established the Province of Texas. 1692-1993- Salem Witch Trials. 1693- College of William and Mary founded. 1699- France established Louisiana.

1701- Yale College founded. 1701- East and West Jersey united. (New Jersey) 1701- All colonies were made royal colonies except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. 1702-Queen Anne’s War 1705- Virginia Slave Codes established. 1718- French founded New Orleans.

1721- Small Pox inoculations introduced.

1732- Ben Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanac” introduced. 1733- Georgia founded. 1733- Molasses Act. 1734- Jonathan Edwards Sparks “Great Awakening”. 1735- John Peter Zenger trial. 1739- Stono Rebellion in South Carolina. 1739- War of Jenkin’s Ear. 1740- King George’s War.

1743- Ben Franklin founded “The American Philosophical Society”. 1746- College of New Jersey founded. (Princeton)

1754- Ben Franklin processes the “Albany Plan of Union”. 1754-1763- French and Indian War. 1759- Battle of Quebec.

1763- Proclamation of 1763. 1763- Pontiac’s War. 1764- Paxton Boys Rebellion in Pennsylvania. 1764- Sugar Act. 1765- Stamp Act. 1765- Quartering Act. 1765- Sons of Liberty established. 1765- Stamp ct Congress. 1765- Boycotts and Non-Importation Agreements by Colonists. 1766- Stamp Act repealed. 1766- Declaratory Act. 1767- Townshend Acts. 1768- Treaty of Fort Stanwix. 1769- Spanish settlement of California. 1769- Dartmouth College founded. 1770- Boston Massacre. 1770- Townshend duties repealed, except on Tea