TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| 1660 | Monarchy restored in England |
| Parliament passes first of a series of Navigation Acts to regulate colonial commerce | |
| 1660–1685 | Charles II rewards his most important allies with proprietorships in North America |
| 1672 | Royal African Company chartered |
| 1680 | Pueblo revolt against Spanish rule in New Mexico |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1689–1697 | King William’s War |
| 1692 | New colony of Massachusetts established |
| 1700–1750 | New England colonial population increases from 100,000 to 400,000 |
| Middle Atlantic colonial population increases from 50,000 to 250,000 | |
| 1700–1808 | British and Anglo-American ships transport 3 million African slaves to the Americas |
| 1702 | East and West Jersey unite into colony of New Jersey |
| 1702–1713 | War of the Spanish Succession |
| 1704 | Delaware separates from Pennsylvania |
| 1705 | Virginia passes “Negro Act” consolidating and tightening earlier slave laws |
| 1710 | North Carolina becomes fully independent of South Carolina |
| 1711–1715 | Tuscaroras lead pan-Indian war against settlers in the Carolinas |
| 1715–1717 | Yamasee War |
| 1729 | Benjamin Franklin becomes Pennsylvania’s official printer |
| 1732 | Colony of Georgia established |
| 1739 | Eliza Lucas takes charge of her father’s South Carolina estates |
| Stono rebellion | |
| 1743 | William Moraley publishes an account of his time in America |
| 1749 | Spanish settlers in Texas make peace with the Apaches |