1600 |
"En roulant ma boule"
"Alabado" (Song of Praise) |
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1605 |
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1607 Founding of Jamestown, VA |
1610 |
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1615 |
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1620 |
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Founding of Plymouth, MA
1622 New Hampshire part of Maine
1624 New York founded as New Netherland |
1625 |
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1630 |
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1634 Maryland founded |
1635 |
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1636 Rhode Island founded
1636 Hartford, Connecticut founded |
1638 |
"A Friendly Invitation to a New Plantation" |
Delaware founded
1639 New Hampshire becomes part of Massachusetts
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1640 |
"Old Hundred" |
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1643 |
"New England's Annoyances" |
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1645 |
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1647 First public schools in Massachusetts
1649 Maryland Act of Toleration |
1650 |
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1655 |
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1660 |
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Navigation Acts
1663 Carolinas founded
1664 New Jersey founded |
1665 |
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1670 |
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1672 |
"Tobacco's But an Indian Weed" |
1673-1675 Marquette and Joliet explore Mississippi River |
1675 |
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1676 |
"Let Us Break Bread Together" |
Bacon's Rebellion (VA) |
1680 |
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1682 Pennsylvania founded |
1685 |
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1689 The Glorious Revolution and English Bill of Rights
1689-91 Leisler's Rebellion (NY) |
1690 |
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1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials (MA) |
1695 |
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1700 |
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1701 |
"Once More! Our God Vouchsafe to Shine" |
Pennsylvania Frame of Government guarantees religious freedom through the "Charter of Privileges"
Yale College founded
1702 East and West New Jersey joined |
1705 |
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1710 |
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1711-15 Tuscarora Indian War
1712 Carolina divided into two colonies |
1715 |
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1717 It takes one month for a letter to travel from Boston to Williamsburg, two months in the winter
1717 Remaining Tuscarora Indians placed on Reservation
1718 New Orleans founded |
1720 |
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1725 |
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1729-1757 Jonathan Edwards' ministry |
1730 |
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Great Awakening begins
1732 Georgia settled |
1735 |
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Zenger Trial establishes freedom of press |
1740 |
"Welcome, Welcome, Brother Debtor" |
George Whitfield's preaching tours
English settlers and traders move into Ohio River Valley |
1745 |
"God Save the King" |
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1750 |
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1752 Britain and the British colonies switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar
1752 Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment
1753 Benjamin Franklin named deputy postmaster general of colonies
1754 Fort Duquesne built
1754 French & Indian War begins |
1755 |
"La courte paille" (The Short Straw) |
1758 Fort Pitt built
1759 Fall of Quebec |
1760 |
"Death of General Wolfe" |
Philadelphia is America's largest city
1763 Treaty of Paris
1763 Paxton Boys Massacre (PA)
1764-71 Carolina Regulators (NC) |
