1607                                  Jamestown founded

1610-11                             laws of Virginia

1619                                  first slaves land in Virginia

1620                                  Pilgrims found Plymouth

1629                                  Puritans found Massachusetts Bay; Charles I dissolves Parliament, beginning open hostilities with Puritans    

first seal of Mass. Bay colony

1634                                  Maryland founded

1636                                  Puritans expel Roger Williams

1637                                  Puritans expel Anne Hutchinson; Pequot War: Puritans rejoice after killing 500 Pequot Indians. William Bradford, governor of Plymouth: “It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice…to God.”

1642-49                             English Civil War

1649                                  English Puritans win and chop off Charles’ head; Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector

1651                                  first Navigation Act; Puritans pass first Sumptuary Law

1660                                  Cromwell dies; Charles II restored to throne

1662                                  Halfway Covenant

1663                                  Carolinas founded

1664                                  English capture New Netherlands

1675-6                               King Philip’s war: bloodiest war per capita in American history; Bacon’s Rebellion in Va.

1679                                  Puritans' General Court Synod ponders "the evils that have provoked the Lord to bring his judgments on New England," wonders "what is to be done," and demands "the necessity of reformation" to avoid future such judgments

1680                                  Pueblo Revolt

1681                                  Pennsylvania founded

1684                                  Massachusetts charter revoked 

1688-89                            Glorious Revolution in England: William & Mary become constitutional monarchs, replacing James II

1692                                 Salem witch trials