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May 14, 1607
The first colony founded in North America, found in present day Virginia.

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1607
English colonists sponsored by the Plymouth Company attempted a settlement in Maine in 1607, but it was abandoned the following year.

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1608
Just after the Jamestown colonists came, John Smith shipped several barrels of ore back to England, this led to the East India Company sending iron-workers out to set up smelting operations.

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1612
John Rolfe started sales of tobacco when he arrived in Jamestown. In 1612 he harvested his inaugural crop for sale on the European market.

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1618
This served to attract more colonists as they were given land for paying for new colonists to come over to serve as indentured servants.

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1619
Where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.

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1620
First colonial settlement in New England The settlers included a group of about 100 Puritan Separatist Pilgrims.

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1620
Plymouth was founded by a group of Separatists who became known as pilgrims. They wanted to be able to practice their religion freely.

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1622
Three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy

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1629
Founded by John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges received a land grant by the council for New England

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1630
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England.

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1632
The Maryland Colony was founded in 1633 by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore and other colonists, at Baltimore.

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1636
Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony led 100 people to present-day Hartford in 1636. He and Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan minister, are often considered the founders of the Connecticut colony.

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1637
A group of Massachusetts dissenters purchased land from the Indians on Aquidneck Island, which was called Rhode Island at the time.

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1638
New Haven was founded by English Puritans, and a year later eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is commonly known as the "Nine Square Plan".

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1638
The Delaware Colony was founded by Peter Minuit. It was named after its major river, the Delaware River.

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1640
The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there.

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1663
Settlers moved to Carolina from Virginia and other colonies. This colony played a big part in farming for crops.

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1664
A colony used to be owned by the Dutch was surrendered to the English and it was renamed New York, after the Duke of York.

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1664
The New Jersey Colony was founded by Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret and named after the British island of Jersey.

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1672
The liquor, made from sugarcane juice or molasses fermented with yeast and water and then distilled in copper pot stills, was given its name in 1672.

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1675
Armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their American Indian allies. Ended in 1678 with the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay.

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March 4, 1681
The Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in North America by William Penn as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II.

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1692
Citizens accused one another of witchcraft, leading to mass hysteria and the imprisonment/death of approximately 170 community members.

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1710
South Carolina, part of the original Province of Carolina, was founded when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as the Lords Proprietors.

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1732
The Georgia Colony was founded by James Oglethorpe and other colonists. The colony wasnamed after King George II of England.

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1733
The First Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals that propelled the expansion of evangelical denominations in the colonies.

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1763
The war began when Native Americans, offended by the policies of British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements. This led to peace negotiations in 1764 over the next two years.