A | B |
1603 | Elizabeth Tudor dies |
1603-1625 | James I |
1607 | Jamestown founded |
1609 | Henry Hudson sails up the river |
1609-10 | “Starving Time” |
1608 | John Smith |
1619 | Women and slaves arrive in Jamestown |
1619 | 1st case of representative government |
1620 | Mayflower Compact/Plymouth Founded |
1620 | Plymouth founded/Mayflower Compact |
1621-1662 | Massasoit |
1603-1649 | Divine Right of Kings |
1625-1649 | Charles I |
1632/4 | Maryland founded by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore for Roman Catholics |
1639 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution |
1630-1649 | John Winthrop |
1636 | Founding of Rhode Island by Roger Williams for Religious Freedom & Separation of Church and State |
1647 | Ole’ Deluder Satan Act |
1642-1649 | English Civil War |
1642-1660 | Oliver Cromwell |
1660 | The Restoration |
1660-1685 | Charles II |
1663 | Carolinas given to Charles II’s friends because they helped him during his exile. |
1664 | New Amsterdam becomes New York |
1670 | City of Charles Town founded |
1681 | Pennsylvania founded by William Penn Jr. for Quakers |
1685-1688 | James II |
1688 | The Bloodless Revolution |
1688 | The Glorious Revolution |
1688-1702 | William of Orange |
1688-1694 | Queen Mary |
1714-1727 | George I |
1721-42 | Robert Walpole |
1727-1760 | George II |
1732/4 | Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe as a refuge for debtors |
1760-1820 | George III |