17th Century

1600
1601
1602
1603
1604
1605
1606
1607 - Jamestown, VA founded
1608 - Santa Fe, NM founded
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River
1610
1611
1612 - tobacco planted by English colonists in VA
1613 - Virgina colonists attack Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1614 - Pocahontas marries John Rolfe VA; Dutch claim New York
1615
1616
1617
1618

1619 - House of Burgesses created in VA
1620 - Pilgrims land at [[#|Plymouth]] Rock
1621
1622 - First Anglo-Powhatan War VA; William Bradford becomes governor of Plymouth Colony
1623
1624
1625 - King James I dies; Charles I becomes king
1626 - Dutch purchase Manhattan
1627
1628
1629 - [[#|John Winthrop]] elected governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony established
1631 - Massachusetts becomes a commonwealth
1632 - Cecil Calvert founds Maryland colony
1633 - Dorchester, MA founded
1634
1635
1636 - Pequot War in New England, Capt. John Mason leads colonists
1637 - Pequot massacre led by Capt. John Mason
1638
1639
1640
1641
1642
1643 - New England Confederation formed by Connecticut, Massachusetts, Plymouth & New Hampshire
1644 - 2nd Anglo-Powhatan War VA
1645
1646
1647
1648
1649
1650
1651
1652 - Anglo-Dutch War begins
1653
1654
1655
1656
1657
1658
1659
1660
1661
1662
1663 - Connecticut becomes royal colony; Carolina colony established
1664
1665 - New Haven Colony annexed to Connecticut
1666
1667
1668
1669
1670
1671
1672
1673
1674
1675 - Richard Maulding b. ca. 1675; King Philip's War New Englan
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion in VA
1677
1678
1679
1680 - Frances Walker d. VA
1681 - William Penn establishes Pennsylvania colony
1682
1683
1684
1685 - New York becomes a royal colony; New Jersey becomes a colony
1686 - Edmund Andros becomes governor of Dominion of New England
1687
1688 - Jane Taylor b. VA; Glorious Revolution in England
1689 - William & Mary crowned sovereigns in England
1690 - King William's War begins
1691 - Delaware made a colony; Plymouth Colony merges with Massachusetts
1692 - Salem witch trials; William III becomes king
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698 - James Taylor d. VA
1699 - Captain Kidd captured