| A | B |
|---|
| 33,000-8,000 B.C. | First humans cross into North America |
| 1000-1300 | The Crusades |
| early 1490s | Ferdinand and Isabella unify Spain by expelling the Moors |
| 1492 | Columbus discovers America |
| 1494 | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| 1519 | Cortes conquers the Aztecs |
| 1530s | Pizarro conquers the Incas |
| 1558 | Elizabeth I begins nearly 50-year reign |
| Mid-1580s | Roanoke established |
| 1588 | England defeats the Spanish Armada |
| 1607 | Jamestown established |
| 1612 | John Rolfe introduces cultivation of tobacco to Virginia |
| 1619 | Virgina House of Burgesses established |
| 1620 | The Mayflower, Pilgrims to Plymouth, Mayflower Compact |
| 1630 | Great Migration- Puritans to Massachusetts Bay |
| 1649 | Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) |
| 1660s | Establishment of the Restoration Colonies ( |
| 1676 | King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1688-1689 | Glorious Revolution in England, end of Dominion of New England- Edmund Andros recalled |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials |
| 1733 | Georgia is established by James Oglethorpe |
