CHRONOLOGY

1534

  • English Reformation begins.

    • 1609

  • Henry Hudson searches for Northwest Passage.

    • 1620

  • Plymouth colony founded.

    • 1626

  • Manhattan Island purchased; New Amsterdam founded.

    • 1629

  • Massachusetts Bay Company receives royal charter.

    • 1630

  • John Winthrop leads Puritan settlers to Massachusetts Bay.

    • 1636

  • Rhode Island colony established.

  • Connecticut colony founded.

    • 1636–1637

  • Pequot War fought between colonists and Pequot Indians.

    • 1638

  • Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.

    • 1642

  • Puritan Revolution inflames England.

    • 1649

  • English Puritans win civil war.

    • 1656

  • Quakers arrive in Massachusetts and are persecuted.

    • 1660

  • Monarchy restored in England.

    • 1662

  • Many Puritan congregations adopt Halfway Covenant.

    • 1664

  • English seize Dutch colony, rename it New York.

  • Colony of New Jersey created.

    • 1675–1676

  • King Philip’s War fought between colonists and Indians.

    • 1681

  • Colony of Pennsylvania founded.

    • 1686

  • Dominion of New England created.

    • 1688

  • England’s Glorious Revolution restores Protestant monarchy.

    • 1689–1697

  • King William’s War pits Britain against France in North America.

    • 1692

  • Salem witch trials held.