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BC
c. 40-8,000 Asian land bridge allowed migration to America. Mayans
c. 11,000 Clovis people hunted mammoths with spears. Mayans
c. 5,000 Corn (maize) was grown in Mexico. Mayans
c. 4,000 Beans were grown in Mexico. Mayans
c. 4,000 Peru grew llamas, corn, potatoes, and cotton. Mayans
c. 2700 Pyramids were built in Peru. Mayans
c. 1500 Olmecs lived near Gulf of Mexico. Mayans
c. 900-200 Chavin culture grew coca in Peru. Mayans
c. 850 Corn farming improved in Peru. Mayans
c. 550 Zoque built pyramids in Chiapas. Mayans
c. 50 Mayans
used hieroglyphics.
CE
c. 250 Tikal Mayans
began building large pyramids.
c. 300 Teotihuacan had about 80,000 people. Mayans
378 Mayan Tikal
ruler conquered Uaxactun.
378 Smoking Frog began ruling Uaxactun. Mayans
c. 450 Ohio river valley people built mounds. Northern
America
562 Mayan Caracol
ruler Lord Water defeated Tikal.
578-628 Butz Chan ruled Mayan
Copan.
615-83 Pacal ruled Mayan
Palenque.
628-95 Smoke Imix ruled Mayan
Copan.
631 Mayan Caracol
ruler Lord Kan II defeated Naranjo.
631-81 Six Tun Bird Jaguar ruled Mayan
Yaxchilan.
659 Mayan Palenque
ruler Pacal made war on Yaxchilan.
679 Petexbatun sacrificed Tikal ruler Shield Skull. Mayans
681-742 Shield Jaguar II ruled Mayan
Yaxchilan.
682-734 Ah Cacau ruled Mayans
Tikal.
695 Mayan Tikal
captured Jaguar Paw of Calakmul.
695-738 Eighteen Rabbit ruled Mayan
Copan.
698-727 Shield God K ruled Mayan
Petexbatun.
710 Naranjo ruler Smoking Squirrel raided the Yaxha. Mayans
711 Mayan Tonina
captured Palenque king Kan Xul II.
738 Quirigua ruler Cauac Sky sacrificed 18 Rabbit. Mayans
c. 750 Teotihuacan was smashed and burned. Mayans
761 Mayan Tamarindito
sacrificed 4th Petexbatun king.
c. 800-1400 Mound builders had cities in Mississippi Valley. Northern America
808 Last date was recorded in Mayan
Yaxchilan.
810 Last date was recorded in Mayan
Quirigua.
822 Last date was recorded in Mayan
Copan.
849-1221 Itza Maya
occupied Chichen Itza.
889 Last date was recorded in Mayan
Tikal.
c. 900 Zapotec centralized government ended. Mayans
c. 950 Toltecs
became prominent in valley of Mexico.
1004-07 Thorvald Erikson explored northeastern America.
1030-63 Eight-Deer ruled the Mixtecs. Toltecs
c. 1168 Toltec
Tollan was destroyed.
c. 1200 Pueblo people lived in Mesa Verde. Anasazi
1325 Tenochtitlan was founded in Mexico. Aztecs
1358 Tlatelolco was founded in Mexico. Aztecs
1371-1426 Tezozomoc ruled Tepanecs. Aztecs
1372-91 Acamapichtli ruled the Mexica. Aztecs
1391-1414 Huitzilihuitl ruled the Mexica. Aztecs
1395 Mexica and Tepanecs conquered Tlaxcala. Aztecs
c. 1400 Hopi lived peacefully north of Mexico. Anasazi
1409-18 Ixtlilxochitl ruled Texcoco. Aztecs
1414-26 Chimalpopoca ruled the Mexica. Aztecs
1418-72 Nezahualcoyotl ruled Texcoco. Aztecs
1426-28 Maxtla ruled Tepanecs. Aztecs
1427-40 Itzcoatl ruled the Aztecs.
1428 Aztecs
destroyed Tepanec Azcapotzalco.
1438-71 Pachacuti ruled Inca
empire.
1440-68 Moteuczoma Ilhuicamina ruled the Aztecs.
1441 Ah Xupan Xiu led revolt that destroyed Mayapan. Mayans
1444 Aztecs
defeated Chalca and sacrificed 500.
c. 1450 Quiché Mayans
reached their maximum power.
c. 1450 Mohawk Hiawatha began Iroquois
federation.
1451-54 Tenochtitlan suffered famine. Aztecs
1465 Aztec empire
annexed Chalco.
1469-81 Axayacatl ruled Aztec
empire.
1471-93 Topa Inca ruled Inca
empire.
1472-1516 Nezahualpilli ruled Texcoco. Aztecs
1478 Tarascans defeated the Mexica. Aztecs
1486-1502 Ahuitzotl ruled Aztec
empire.
1492-1504 Columbus
colonized, explored Caribbean.
1493 Pope Alexander VI gave America to Spain. Columbus
1493 Syphilis appeared in Europe. Columbus
1493-1526 Huayna Capac ruled Inca
empire.
1494 Spain and Portugal
made Tordesillas Treaty. Columbus
1495 Columbus enslaved
1,600 Tainos.
1496 Oaxaca Zapotecs revolted against unfair trade. Aztecs
1500 Colon brothers were sent to Spain in chains. Columbus
1500 Portuguese Cabral discovered South America. Brazil
1502-09 Ovando governed Española (Haiti). Caribbean
1502-20 Moteuczoma Xocoyotl ruled Aztecs.
Mexico
1505 African slaves were brought to Española. Caribbean
1509 Ponce de Leon colonized Puerto Rico. Caribbean
1509-23 Diego Colon governed Española. Caribbean
1511 Velazquez and Narvaez conquered Cuba. Caribbean
1511 Montesinos criticized conquest at Santo Domingo. Caribbean
1511 Noronha sent 35 slaves from Brazil
to Portugal.
1512 Laws of Burgos were promulgated. Caribbean
1513 Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean. Panama
1514 Spain devised Requirement to warn natives. Caribbean
1516 Las Casas was
appointed Protector of Indians. Caribbean
1517 Pedrarias had Balboa beheaded. Panama
1517 Velazquez sent Cordoba to explore Yucatan. Mexico
1517 Contract to import 4,000 African slaves was made. Caribbean
1519 Smallpox wiped out Tainos on Española and Cuba. Caribbean
1519-21 Cortes led the
conquest of Mexico.
1522 Carlos V confirmed Cortes
as governor.
1524 Cortes promulgated
ordinances for New Spain.
1524 Spaniards fought over Honduras and Nicaragua. Central
America
1524-33 Francisco Pizarro
explored and invaded Peru.
1524-41 Alvarado conquered Guatemala, killing 4 million. Central
America
1526-32 Huascar and Atahualpa fought Inca civil war. Incas,
Peru
1527 Slaves revolted on Puerto Rico. Caribbean
1527-41 Montejo subjugated Yucatan. Mexico
1528 Narvaez began exploring Florida. Soto
1530 Carlos V banned making Indians slaves. Mexico
1531 Cult of the Virgin began in Guadalupe. Mexico
1532 Quiroga founded a hospital in Mexico
City.
1532 Martim Afonso de Sousa founded Sao Vicente. Brazil
1533 Francisco Pizarro
took gold and killed Atahualpa.
1533 Mexico bishop Zumarraga
exposed Guzman.
1534 Pedro Alvarado invaded Ecuador. Peru
1534, 1541 Cartier
explored St. Lawrence River.
1535 Francisco Pizarro
founded Lima.
1535 Carlos V assigned Peru to Pizarro
and Almagro.
1535-50 Viceroy Mendoza governed Mexico.
1536 Pope Paul III defended American Indians. Las
Casas
1536 Manco organized an Inca rebellion. Peru
1537 Almagro took Cuzco from Pizarrists. Peru
1537 Las Casas used peaceful conversion in Vera Paz. Caribbean
1537-57 Irala governed Paraguay. South
America
1538 Hernando Pizarro
defeated and killed Almagro.
1538 Quesada met Chibchas and founded Bogota. New
Granada
1539-42 Soto explored
from Florida to the Mississippi.
1540-42 Mixton War enslaved 5,000. Mexico
1540-42 Coronado led
expedition north to Kansas.
1541 François authorized colonization of America. Canada
1541 Almagrists assassinated Francisco Pizarro.
1541 Valdivia founded Santiago in Chile. Peru
1542 Spain's New Laws tried to reform encomiendas. Peru
1542 Alonso Alvarado defeated Almagrists at Chupas. Peru
1542 Cabrillo explored the California coast. Mexico
1544 Las Casas became
bishop of Chiapas.
1545 Rich silver deposits were discovered at Potosi. Peru
1545 800,000 natives died of a new plague in Mexico.
1545-46 Natives wiped out Bahia and Sao Tomé in Brazil.
1546 Gonzalo Pizarro
defeated and killed Viceroy Vela.
1548 Gasca defeated and executed Gonzalo Pizarro.
1549 Tomé de Sousa was first royal governor of Brazil.
1549 Nobrega led first Jesuits to America in Bahia. Brazil
1550 Las
Casas debated Sepulveda on Indians.
1550 Valdivia founded Concepcion in Chile. South
America
1550 Zapotecs rebelled against Spanish rule. Mexico
1550-64 Viceroy Velasco governed Mexico.
1551 Lima ecclesiastical council condemned coca. Peru
1552 Las Casas published
8 tracts on colonial reform.
1553-54 Giron led a revolt in Cuzco but was defeated. Peru
1553-58 Caupolican led Araucanian revolt in Chile. South
America
1556 Nobrega wrote Conversion of the Heathen. Brazil
1562 European diseases infected natives of Bahia. Brazil
1562-75 Ibarra conquered northwest Mexico.
1565 Menendez massacred
Huguenots at Fort Caroline.
1566 Inca Titu Cusi signed a treaty, became Christian. Peru
1568 Hawkins fought Spaniards at San Juan de Ulua. Caribbean
1569 Ercilla began publishing his poem La Araucana. South
America
1569-82 Viceroy Toledo governed Peru. Peru
1572 Francis Drake attacked Panama. Central
America
1574 Moya brought the Inquisition to Mexico.
1574 Toledo organized forced labor in Peru.
1576-80 Epidemic killed two million natives in Mexico.
1580 Garay planned city of Buenos Aires. South
America
1585-87 Raleigh
sponsored colony at Roanoke.
1586 Drake with 19 ships raided Cartagena. New
Granada
1587 Caldera mediated treaties with Chichimecs. Mexico
1591-93 Inquisition purged Jewish influence in Brazil.
1593 Jesuits came to Chile.
1594 Raleigh explored the Orinoco River. Guiana
1596 Drake destroyed Santa Marta. New
Granada
1598 Araucanian horsemen defeated Spaniards. Chile
1598.6 Clifford led attack on Puerto Rico. West
Indies
1598-1608 Oñate explored and governed in New Mexico. Northern Mexico
1600 Silver-mining Potosi had 150,000 people.
Peru
1602 French formed the Canada
Company.
1602 Parker attacked and captured Puerto Bello. Central
America
1607 Plymouth Company colony was abandoned. Plymouth
1607 Jamestown
began; Pocahontas saved Smith.
1608 Felipe III allowed Jesuits into Rio
de la Plata.
1608 Champlain
founded Quebec.
1608-97 Missionary Vieira
worked for reforms in Brazil.
1609 African slaves revolted at Veracruz. Mexico
1609 Hudson explored Hudson River for the Dutch. New
Netherland
1610 Spanish Inquisition came to Cartagena. New
Granada
1610 Yaquis made peace with Spaniards in Sonora. Northern
Mexico
1610 Indians rebelled at Durango. Mexico
1611 France sent Jesuits to Canada.
1611-16 Dale and Gates governed Jamestown
strictly.
1612 Bishop Trejo founded Jesuit college at Cordoba. Rio
de la Plata
1612 Valdivia implemented reforms in Chile.
1612 Virginia Company was granted Bermuda. Jamestown
1612 Jamestown
charter was revised; lottery began.
1613 Argall destroyed French colonies in Canada.
1614 Amsterdam company founded New
Netherland.
1614 Rolfe exported tobacco, married Pocahontas.
1616 Groenewegen founded Kykoveral by Essequibo. Guiana
1616.2 Champlain
mediated Huron-Algonquin peace.
1616 Rolfe and Pocahontas
visited England.
1618 Raleigh was executed to satisfy Spain. Guiana
1619.8 Dutch sold 20 Africans in Jamestown. Virginia
1619 Virginia
elected first Assembly.
1620.11.21 41 pilgrims
signed the Mayflower compact.
1621.3 Pilgrims
and Wampanoag Massasoit made treaty.
1621.10 Pilgrims,
Wampanoags celebrated thanksgiving.
1621 Dutch West India
Company was chartered.
1621-23 Viceroy Gelves reformed Mexico.
1621-56 Bradford
governed Plymouth almost every year.
1622.3.22 Powhatans and others killed 347 settlers. Virginia
1622 King James banned selling weapons to Indians. Plymouth
1623 Dutch and Walloons built Fort Orange. New
Netherland
1624 British formed
the West Indies Association.
1624 Archbishop Serna excommunicated Gelves. Mexico
1624.5 Dutch fleet captured
Salvador in Bahia.
1624 Champlain
made peace with the Iroquois.
1624-28 Mohawks battled and defeated Mahicans. Iroquois
1625 English colonists landed at Barbados. West
Indies
1625 Charles made Virginia
a royal colony.
1626 Felipe IV ordered offensive war in Chile.
1626 Minuit purchased Manhattan Island. New
Netherland
1626 Pilgrims
bought out their stockholders.
1627 Richelieu founded Company of 100 Associates. Canada
1628 Piet Heyn captured lucrative Spanish fleet. Dutch,
Mexico
1628 Endecott began the colony of Salem. Massachusetts
1629 Tavares' slave raid took 5,500 Indians in Guaira. Brazil
1629 Araucanians captured Pineda. Chile
1629.3 Charles granted Massachusetts
Bay to Puritans.
1630 Dutch fleet occupied
Recife and Olinda.
1630 Winthrop began Massachusetts
Bay colony.
1632 Récollet Sagard published a Huron dictionary. Canada
1632-75 Cecil Calvert
was Maryland proprietor. Calverts
1633-34 Smallpox wiped out Massachusetts
Indians. Connecticut
1634 Spaniards invaded Providence Island. West
Indies
1634 Champlain
founded Three Rivers.
1635 Dutch and Brazilians
fought Sugar War.
1635 Massachusetts
required church attendance.
1636.1 Salem banished Roger Williams. Massachusetts
1636 Harvard College was founded. Massachusetts
1636-38 Massachusetts, Connecticut fought Pequots.
1637 Massachusetts
expelled Anne Hutchinson.
1637-44 Maurits governed Pernambuco for the Dutch.
1638.3 Williams
and Hutchinsons founded Rhode Island.
1638 Minuit founded New Sweden by the Delaware. New
Netherland
1638 New Haven and Hartford elected governments. Connecticut
1639 Plymouth
freemen elected representatives.
1640-68 Portugal fought Spain for independence. Brazil
1641.3 Rhode Island
government was elected.
1642 Maisonneuve founded Montreal. Canada
1642 Massachusetts
annexed New Hampshire.
1643.3 Virginia required
Anglican conformity.
1643.5 Confederation of New
England formed.
1643 Mohegans defeated the Narragansetts. New
England
1643 Williams wrote
about American Indians.
1643-45 Kieft's War killed 1,600 Indians. New
Netherland
1644.3 Parliament granted Rhode
Island a charter.
1644.4.18 Indians killed 500 settlers in Virginia.
1644 Megapolensis published a book on Mohawks. New
Netherland
1644 Williams published
Bloudy Tenent of Persecution.
1644.10.14 William Penn
was born in London.
1644-48 Dutch traded guns to Mohawks for furs. Iroquois
1645 Pessicus led Narragansett attack on Mohegans. New
England
1646 Ward published Simple Cobler of Aggawam. New
England
1646-47 Massachusetts fined Dr. Child for petitions. New
England
1647-48 Dutch privateers
took 249 Brazilian ships.
1647-64 Stuyvesant governed
New Netherland.
1648 Plymouth
colony paid off its debt.
1649 Maryland protected
free exercise of religion.
1650 Anne Bradstreet's poetry was published. New England
1650 Pynchon published The Meritorious Price. New
England
1650 Hartford Treaty divided Long Island. New
England, New Netherland
1651 British Navigation Act protected shipping. Virginia
1651 English began colonizing Guiana.
1651 Dutch arrested English colonists in Delaware. New
Netherland
1651 Eliot founded Natick for Christian Indians. New
England
1651.10 Massachusetts took over Maine. New
England
1651-95 Juana Inés wrote poetry, plays, and essays. Mexico
1652 Barbados Charter included elected assembly. West
Indies
1652-54 First Anglo-Dutch War was fought. New
England, New Netherland
1652-60 House of Burgesses governed Virginia.
1653 Jesuits returned to Sao Paulo. Brazil
1653 Most Iroquois made
peace with the French.
1654.1 Dutch surrendered
Recife to Portuguese.
1654 Swedes captured Fort Casimir from Dutch. New
Netherland
1654-57 Williams was
president of Rhode Island.
1655 Admiral Penn took Jamaica from Spaniards. British
West Indies
1655 New Amsterdam imported African slaves. New
Netherland
1655.9 Dutch ended New Sweden colony. New
Netherland
1655 900 Indians invaded Manhattan. New
Netherland
1656 Dutch and Jews occupied Cayenne. Guiana
1656.5 Mohawks massacred Hurons at Isle of Orleans. Iroquois
1657-65 Massachusetts persecuted Quakers. New
England
1658 Mohawks drove missionaries out of Onondaga. Iroquois
1658 Holyoke published Doctrine of Life. New
England
1659 French founded
St. Domingue on Haiti.
1659-76 John Winthrop Jr. governed Connecticut. New
England
1660-77 Berkeley governed
Virginia again.
1661 Vieira was expelled
from Brazil.
1661 Rio de Janeiro executed tax rebel Barbalho. Brazil
1661, 1663 Eliot published the Bible in Algonquian. New England
1662 Portugal took over the Brazil
Company.
1662 Connecticut stopped hanging witches. New
England
1663.2 Louis XIV took over the Company in Canada. French
1663 Charles II granted Carolina
to 8 supporters.
1663 Dutch fought the Esopus tribe. New
Netherland
1664 Colbert chartered French
West India Company.
1664 Puerto Rico began granting slaves asylum. West
Indies
1664 Duke of York granted New
Jersey to proprietors.
1664.9.5 Dutch surrendered New
Netherland to English.
1664, 1676 French took Cayenne back from the Dutch. Guiana
1664-68 Col. Nicolls governed New
York benevolently.
1664-88 James was proprietor of New
York.
1665-67 Second Anglo-Dutch War was fought. Virginia
1666 Pirates raided Costa Rica and Maracaibo. Central
America, West
Indies
1667 Breda Treaty gave New
York to English.
1667 Breda Treaty gave Surinam back to Dutch. Guiana
1667 Breda Treaty gave Acadia back to French. Canada
1667 Iroquois League and French made peace. New
France, Canada
1667 Hurricane destroyed 10,000 houses in Virginia.
1668 Peace between Spain and Portugal opened trade. Brazil
1668-71 Morgan's pirates raided Panama. Central
America, West
Indies
1669 Penn in prison
wrote No Cross, No Crown.
1669 Locke wrote Fundamental Constitutions. Carolina
1670 English founded Charles Town, South Carolina.
1670.9 London jury acquitted Penn
and Quakers.
1671 Plymouth made Metacom
surrender his arms.
1671 Penn was imprisoned
six months for preaching.
1672 George Fox preached in Maryland.
1672-74 Third Anglo-Dutch
War was fought. New York
1672-82 Frontenac governed Canada. Frontenac
1673 Marquette explored the Mississippi River. Canada
1673 Spaniards fortified San Agustin, Florida. Georgia
1673.8 Dutch took over New
York for six months.
1673-95 Zumbi led quilombos revolt in Brazil.
1674 Stapleton convened Leeward Islands assembly. West
Indies
1674-80 Governor Andros favored New
York City.
1674-82 Joseph West governed Carolina.
1674-83 Quakers controlled West Jersey.
1674-88 Laval was first bishop of Quebec. Canada
1675 Popé and others were tried in Santa Fe. Northern
Mexico
1675 Quakers began settling in West Jersey.
1675.6 Metacom's War
in New England began.
1675.9.9 New England
called out 1,000 militiamen.
1675-76 Metacom's War
killed 3,600.
1676.2 1,500 Indians raided Massachusetts. Metacom's
War
1676.5.10 Governor Berkeley declared Bacon
a rebel.
1676.8.12 Metacom
was killed at Mount Hope.
1676.9.19 Bacon's rebellion
burned Jamestown.
1676.10.26 Bacon
died of dysentery.
1676-81 Randolph investigated New
England colonies.
1677.1 Bacon's rebellion
in Virginia ended.
1677.12 John Culpepper led revolt in North Carolina.
1678 Dominicans formed university in Guatemala. Central
America
1679 New Hampshire became a royal province. New
England
1680 Buccaneers sacked Caracas. New
Granada
1680.8 Popé led a united attack on Santa Fe. Northern
Mexico
1681.2.24 Charles II granted Pennsylvania to Penn.
1681 Pope Innocent XI sanctioned Bethlehemites. Central
America
1682.4 La Salle claimed
Louisiana for Louis XIV.
1682.4 Penn wrote
"Frame of Government."
1682.12.4 First Assembly of Pennsylvania
met.
1683 Van Horn and Laurent raided Veracruz. Mexico
1683.6 Penn signed
treaty with Lenni-Lenape.
1683-85 New York developed a democratic Assembly.
1684 Senecas besieged Fort St. Louis. Canada
1684.10 Massachusetts charter was judged forfeited. New
England
1685 Louis XIV's Code Noir regulated slavery. West
Indies, Louisiana
1685, 1690 Slaves on Jamaica revolted. West
Indies
1686.8 Spaniards destroyed Stuart's Town in Carolina.
1686-89 Andros governed New
England Dominion.
1687.3.19 La Salle
was murdered in Louisiana.
1687 Denonville went to war against the Iroquois. Canada
1687 Wise led tax
resistance in New England.
1688 Barbados adopted a slave code. South
Carolina
1688 Mennonites of Germantown protested slavery. Pennsylvania
1689.4.19 Massachusetts arrested Governor Andros. New
England
1689 Privateer Casse attacked Surinam and Berbice. Guiana
1689.5 Leisler took over New
York.
1689-97 King William's War fought French. Canada,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
1689-98 Frontenac
governed Canada during war.
1689-1714 Maryland
was a royal colony.
1690.2 French and Indians destroyed Schenectady. Canada
1690.5 Phips of Massachusetts captured Port Royal. Canada,
New England
1690.10 British attack on Quebec led by Phips failed. Canada,
New England
1691.3 New York governor
Sloughter removed Leisler.
1691 William granted Massachusetts a new charter. New
England
1692 High grain prices caused a riot in Mexico
City.
1692 Salem witch trials
hanged 19 people.
1692-97 Fletcher governed New
York corruptly.
1693 New York supported
Anglican ministers.
1693 Penn wrote plan
for European peace.
1694 Penn wrote about
people called Quakers.
1695 College of William and Mary was founded. Virginia
1696 Louis XIV cancelled beaver permits. Canada
1696 Board of Trade formed for Navigation Acts. Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania
1696-98 Spaniards conquered Tarahumaras. Northern
Mexico
1697 Ryswick Treaty tried to end piracy. West
Indies
1697 Salvatierra founded a mission in Baja California. Northern
Mexico
1698 Brazil's long gold
rush began.
1698-1700 Scottish colonists failed in Panama. Central
America
1698-1727 Samuel Cranston governed Rhode
Island.
1699 Iberville founded Biloxi in Louisiana.
Canada
1699 Woolen Act banned colonial exports. Massachusetts
1699 Virginia law
required church attendance.
1700 Sewall published The Selling of Joseph.
Massachusetts
1700 New York banned
Catholic priests.
1701 Connecticut
began college that became Yale.
1701.5.23 Captain Kidd was hanged in London. Massachusetts
1701.7 Cadillac started a trading post at Detroit. Canada
1701.8.6 38 chiefs made treaty with French Canadians. Canada
1701.10.28 Penn granted
Charter of Privileges.
1702 Cotton Mather
wrote Magnalia Christi Americana.
1702 New Jersey was
unified as a royal colony.
1702.9 South Carolina
governor Moore burned San Agustin.
1702-13 Queen Anne's War. Canada,
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina
1702-38 New Jersey
was under governor of New York.
1703 Jesuits introduced printing in Rio
de la Plata.
1703 La Hontan wrote New Voyages to North-America. Canada
1703-25 Rigaud de Vaudreuil governed Canada.
1704.2.29 French and Abenakis attacked Deerfield. Canada,
Massachusetts
1704 Weekly Boston News-Letter began. Massachusetts
1705 Massachusetts
raised duty on imported Africans.
1706.1.17 Benjamin Franklin
was born in Boston.
1706 South Carolina
established Anglicans.
1707 John Williams published Redeemed Captive. Massachusetts
1707 New York arrested
Presbyterian Makemie.
1707-24 Saltonstall governed Connecticut.
1708 Spain allowed slaves to purchase their freedom. West
Indies
1708 French privateers raided the Essequibo colony. Guiana
1708 Indian agent Nairne made peace with Choctaws. South
Carolina
1709 Selkirk was rescued from Juan Fernandez Island. Chile
1709 Louis XIV banned selling beaver to English. Canada
1709 English expedition against Canada failed. Massachusetts,
New York
1710 Cotton Mather
published Essays to Do Good.
1710.9 Nicholson's forces captured Port Royal. Canada,
Massachusetts
1710-22 Col. Spotswood governed Virginia.
1711.8 British naval attack on Quebec failed. Canada,
Massachusetts
1711.9 5,800 French captured Rio de Janeiro. Brazil
1712 Massachusetts
banned importing Indian slaves.
1712 New York slave
rebellion was suppressed.
1712 South Carolina
founded the first land bank.
1712.11 Cassard's pirates raided Surinam and Berbice. Guiana
1713.3 Carolinians and Indians defeated Tuscaroras. North
Carolina
1713 Utrecht Treaty gave slave trading to British. Mexico
1713 French ceded Acadia to England. Canada,
Massachusetts
1714 English conformity law required oaths. Pennsylvania
1714 Calvert proprietors of Maryland
were restored.
1715 Tuscaroras went north, joined Iroquois league. North
Carolina
1715 South Carolina
fought the Yamasees.
1716.1 Cherokees signed a treaty with the English. South
Carolina
1717 Wise wrote
Vindication of the Government.
1717 Alabamas helped French build Fort Toulouse. Louisiana
1718 Joao V approved selling Indians in Sao Luis. Brazil
1718 Bienville founded New Orleans as a capital. Louisiana
1718 New York allowed
Jews to be naturalized.
1718.3 Chief Brims united the Creeks at Coweta. South
Carolina
1718.11 Virginia
navy killed Blackbeard.
1718-32 Woodes Rogers governed the Bahamas. West
Indies
1719 Louisiana began
importing African slaves.
1719 South Carolina
Assembly replaced proprietors.
1720 Maryland had
80,000 people and 25,000 slaves.
1720-21 John Law created a French financial bubble. Canada
1721 Cotton Mather advocated smallpox inoculation. Massachusetts
1721 Cotton Mather
published Christian Philosopher.
1721.5 South Carolina
became a royal colony.
1722 Weekly Jamaica Courant began publishing. West
Indies
1722 Gaceta de Mexico began its monopoly on news. Mexico
1722 Franklin wrote Silence
Dogood secretly.
1722-24 Dummer's War fought Abenakis in Maine. Massachusetts
1723 A Belgian set up a printing press in Cuba. West
Indies
1723 Pennsylvania
issued £45,000 in paper money.
1724 Meneses founded the Brazilian Academy. Brazil
1724 Louisiana excluded
Jews and Protestants.
1725 University of Caracas was founded. New
Granada
1726-46 Beauharnois governed Canada.
1727 Colden wrote History of the Five Indian Nations. Iroquois
1727 Franklin started
the Junto discussion group.
1727 Maryland Gazette began publishing. Maryland
1727-49 William Gooch governed Virginia.
1728 Dominicans began a university at Havana. West
Indies
1728 Caracas Company was given a trade monopoly. New
Granada
1729 Franklin wrote
"Busy-Body." Journalism
1729 Franklin wrote
on paper money.
1729 Franklin bought
the Pennsylvania Gazette.
1729 North Carolina
became a royal colony.
1729-31 French and Choctaws fought Natchez. Louisiana
1730 Almeida began regulating diamond mining. Brazil
1730 Mompo led a revolt in Asuncion. Rio
de la Plata
1730 Virginia passed
Tobacco Inspection Act.
1730-41 Jonathan Belcher governed Massachusetts. Massachusetts
1731 Barbados Gazette began publishing. West
Indies
1731 Viceroy Armendariz executed Antequera. Rio
de la Plata
1731 Louisiana became
a royal colony,
1731 Franklin's Junto
began first circulating library.
1732 Brazil restricted
women from emigrating.
1732 George II granted Georgia
a non-profit charter.
1733.2 Oglethorpe
led settlers south of Savannah River.
1733 British passed the Molasses Act. Massachusetts,
New York, Virginia
1733 Virginia had
88,000 Europeans, 42,000 Africans.
1733-58 Franklin published Poor
Richard's Almanac.
1734 Escandon pacified Sierra Gorda in Mexico.
1734-52 Johnston governed North
Carolina.
1735 Jury acquitted publisher Zenger in New
York.
1735.4.3 Georgia
banned importing slaves and alcohol.
1736 Franklin became
Assembly clerk.
1736 Parks began publishing weekly Virginia Gazette. Virginia
1736.12 Franklin founded
Union Fire Company.
1736, 1739 Bienville attacked the Chickasaws. Louisiana
1737 Franklin became
deputy postmaster.
1737.9 Walking Purchase took land from Delawares. Pennsylvania
1738 Bogota got its first printing press. New
Granada
1738 Whitefield came to Georgia.
1739.9 Slaves rebelled
near Charles Town.
1739.10 England declared war on Spain. West
Indies, Rhode Island,
South Carolina
1740 Whitefield preached in New England. Great
Revival
1740 South Carolina
had 39,000 African slaves.
1740.5 2,000 English and Indians attacked San Agustin. Georgia
1741 English attacked Cartagena. Massachusetts,
Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina
1741 Zinzendorf's Moravians founded Bethlehem. Pennsylvania
1742 Edwards wrote
about the revival of religion.
1742 Franklin invented
a more efficient stove.
1742 Cherokees, Catawbas, and Iroquois made treaty. South
Carolina
1742.6.22 Spanish fleet attacked St. Simons Island. Georgia
1742.7 Georgia
repealed prohibition of alcohol.
1743 Stephens succeeded Oglethorpe in Georgia.
1744 Franklin founded
American Philosophical Society.