The Origins of America: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Colonial World
Fall 2007
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Timeline of Early Contact and Settlement
1534-1541
Cartier explores St. Lawrence River, reaches Hochelaga (Montreal), Stadacona (Quebec City).
1565
Spanish found St. Augustine in Florida.
1607
Jamestown becomes the first English settlement in North America.
1608
Champlain establishes French colony at Quebec; explores the Lake in 1609 and becomes first European to enter Vermont.
1614
Hudson establishes Dutch trading post at Ft. Orange (Albany)
1616-1621
New England Indians decimated by European diseases.
1619
First Africans brought to Virginia.
1620
Pilgrims establish Plymouth Colony.
1623
First permanent European settlement in New Hampshire (Rye).
1624
Dutch West India Company settles New Netherland (Manhattan and Albany).
1630
Puritans emigrate to New England: Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634
Settlement of Maryland begins.
1637
Pequot War in New England.
1640
Four towns in NH: Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, Hampton.
1642-1649
English Civil War.
1660
Restoration of the Stuarts.
1664
England conquers New Netherland.
1666
French Fort St. Anne on Isle La Motte becomes first European settlement in VT.
1673-1683
French expand into the Mississippi valley.
1675-1677
King Philip's War in New England, one third of English towns destroyed, 5,000 white and Indian casualties.
1680
NH becomes a separate province from MA.
1688
Glorious Revolution: William of Orange ousts the Stuarts, reconquers England for the Protestants.
1692
Salem witchcraft hysteria.
1700
Population (white) in the English colonies reaches 275,000: Boston (7,000) and New York (5,000) are the largest cities.
1701
France establishes a settlement at Detroit.
1702
War of the Spanish Succession (called Queen Anne's War in the colonies): English and American colonists battle the French, their Indian allies, and the Spanish for the next eleven years.
1704
Raid on Deerfield, MA.
1705
Black Code assigns slaves in VA the status of real estate. NY runaway slave law carries death penalty. MA criminalizes marriage between blacks and whites.
1711
Tuscarora War in North Carolina.
1712
Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves.
1718
New Orleans founded by the French.
1719
Europeans begin settling in the Merrimack Valley, NH.
1722
Hurons, Abenakis, and other tribes raze communities along the Kennebec River.
1724
Fort Dummer built, present-day Brattleboro, VT.
1725
Population of black slaves in the colonies reaches 75,000.
1728
Jews in New York City build the first American synagogue.
1734
The Great Awakening religious revival begins.
1736
MA lays out four townships on east side of the Connecticut River: No. 1, Chesterfield; No. 2, Westmoreland; No. 3, Walpole; No. 4, Charlestown (Fort #4 built in 1744).
1739
Three separate slave uprisings in South Carolina.
1740
War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War in the colonies), France and Spain against England, lasts until 1748.
1749-1761
Over 63 towns chartered by Benning Wentworth: the New Hampshire Grants.
1754
French and Indian (Seven Year's) War erupts over land disputes in the Ohio River Valley. Moor's Indian Charity School founded-becomes Dartmouth College.
1759
Rogers' Raid on Odanak, Abenaki village in Quebec.
1760
Population of colonists in America reaches 1,500,000.
1763
Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Year's War; France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans; Spain gives up Florida in return for Cuba.
c. 1770
Rapid influx of settlers to the northern Connecticut River Valley begins and lasts until the early 1800s.
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