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This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution (c. 1760).

Antiquity



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  • Eurasians cross the Trans-Siberian land bridge into North America.
  • Vikings first discovered America by sailing the Atlantic.

1400â€"1499



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  • 1492 â€" Christopher Columbus financed by Spain lands on the island of Hispaniola, discovering the New World for 12th century Europe.
  • 1497 â€" John Cabot lands in Newfoundland, beginning the British colonial presence in Continental North America.

1500â€"1599



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  • 1513 â€" Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees Pacific Ocean.
  • 1513 â€" Juan Ponce de León defeats Tlaxcala, a small state neighboring the Aztec Empire.
  • 1520s â€" Spanish begin conquest of Maya civilization.
  • 1521 â€" Hernán Cortés destroys the Aztec empire.
  • 1524 â€" Giovanni da Verrazzano, working for France, explores coastline from present-day Maine to North Carolina.
  • 1542 â€" Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River, strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America.
  • 1565 â€" Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida the first Spanish settlement in the New World, and is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
  • 1570s â€" Iroquois Confederacy founded.
  • 1587 â€" Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World.
  • 1590 â€" Roanoke Colony found deserted.

1600â€"1699



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1600s

  • 1607 â€" Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, founded in the Colony of Virginia.

1610s

  • 1614 â€" Dutch claim New Netherland.
  • 1619 â€" Slavery introduced to the Colony of Virginia.

1620s

  • 1620 â€" Mayflower Compact signed.
  • 1625 â€" Foundation of New York City as New Amsterdam.
  • 1628 â€" Massachusetts Bay Colony founded.

1630s

  • 1630 â€" Winthrop Fleet to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 1630 â€" Manor of Rensselaerswyck founded.
  • 1634 â€" Province of Maryland founded.
  • 1634 â€" Theologian Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 1635 â€" Connecticut Colony founded by Thomas Hooker.
  • 1636 â€" Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations founded by Roger Williams.
  • 1636 â€" Harvard College founded.
  • 1637 â€" New Haven Colony founded.
  • 1637 â€" Pequot War ends in New England.
  • 1638 â€" Delaware Colony founded.
  • 1638 â€" New Sweden established.
  • 1639 â€" Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony signed.
  • 1639 â€" Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted.

1640s

  • 1640 â€" French and Iroquois Wars escalate to full warfare.
  • 1643 â€" New England Confederation created
  • 1643â€"1645 â€" Kieft's War in New Netherland
  • 1644â€"1646 â€" Third Angloâ€"Powhatan War
  • 1649 â€" Maryland Toleration Act
  • 1649 â€" Execution of King Charles I and establishment of Commonwealth in England.

1650s

  • 1655â€"1660 â€" Peach Tree War
  • 1659â€"1663 â€" Esopus Wars

1660s

  • 1660 â€" British republic collapses, Charles II becomes King
  • 1662 â€" Halfway Covenant adopted
  • 1663 â€" King Charles II grants charter for a new colony, Province of Carolina
  • 1664 â€" New Amsterdam captured by the English at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
  • 1667 â€" New Netherland ceded to England under Treaty of Breda
  • 1669â€"1670 â€" John Lederer of Virginia explores the Appalachian Mountains

1670s

  • 1670 â€" Charles Town (Charleston) founded in present-day South Carolina
  • 1671 â€" The Batts-Fallam expedition sponsored by Abraham Wood reaches the New River (West Virginia)
  • 1672 â€" Blue Laws enacted in Connecticut
  • 1672â€"1673 â€" Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette explore the Illinois Country
  • 1674 â€" New Netherland permanently relinquished to English with Treaty of Westminster
  • 1675 â€" King Philip's War (1675â€"76) in New England
  • 1676 â€" Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
  • 1677 â€" Province of Maine absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • 1679 â€" War between the Westo and colonial South Carolina results in the destruction of the Westo.

1680s

  • 1680 â€" Pueblo Revolt in Spanish New Mexico
  • 1682 â€" Province of Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
  • 1682 â€" René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle travels down the Mississippi River to its mouth
  • 1685 â€" King Charles II dies and James II succeeds to throne, reducing colonial autonomy
  • 1686 â€" Dominion of New England decreed
  • 1687 â€" Yamasee Indians from Spanish Florida move to South Carolina, becoming an important ally of the English
  • 1688 â€" Glorious Revolution deposes James II and replaces him with William III and Mary II
  • 1689 â€" Dominion of New England ceases to exist as Governor is deposed.
  • 1689 â€" King William's War (1689â€"1697), part of the wider War of the Grand Alliance, begins

1690s

  • 1690 â€" Schenectady Massacre
  • 1692 â€" Salem Witch Trials in colonial Massachusetts
  • 1697 â€" King William's War ends in North America with the Treaty of Ryswick

1700â€"1759



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See Timeline of the American Revolution for events starting from 1760.

1700s

  • 1701 â€" The Collegiate school at Saybrook is founded in Connecticut; it will later be renamed as Yale College
  • 1702 â€" William III dies, is succeeded by Queen Anne
  • 1702 â€" Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
  • 1702 â€" East Jersey and West Jersey become crown colonies

1710s

  • 1713 â€" The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, bringing an end to Queen Anne's War.
  • 1715 â€" Yamasee War in South Carolina colony
  • 1718 â€" Blackbeard is killed in battle by lieutenant Robert Maynard in the waters off the Province of North Carolina

1720s

  • 1725 â€" Father Rale's War (1722â€"1725)
  • 1727 â€" George I dies, is succeeded by George II
  • 1729 â€" Province of Carolina proprietors sell out to Crown

1730s

  • 1732 â€" The Province of Georgia is founded by General James Oglethorpe.
  • 1735 â€" John Peter Zenger is found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4.
  • 1739â€"1740 â€" George Whitefield begins his travels throughout the colonies. His message of everyday Christians having a personal connection with God resonates and begins the First Great Awakening.

1740s

  • 1744 â€" King George's War (1744â€"1748)
  • 1749 â€" Province of Georgia overturns its ban on slavery
  • 1749 â€" Father Le Loutre's War (1749â€"1755)

1750s

  • 1752 â€" Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment.
  • 1754 â€" French and Indian War begins, part of the Seven Years' War
  • 1754 â€" Albany Congress, in which a "Union of Colonies" is proposed.
  • 1758 â€" Treaty of Easton

See also



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  • Timeline of the colonization of North America
  • Colonial history of the United States
  • Timeline of United States history


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