TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| 1517 | Martin Luther denounces indulgences, sparking the Protestant Reformation |
| 1530s | England breaks with the Roman Catholic Church |
| 1545–1563 | Council of Trent (Catholic Church) |
| 1598 | Acoma pueblo uprising in New Mexico Edict of Nantes (France) |
| 1607 | Jamestown founded under leadership of Captain John Smith |
| 1608 | First permanent French settlement in North America founded at Quebec |
| 1609 | Dutch traders establish a settlement on the Hudson River |
| 1612 | John Rolfe experiments with tobacco cultivation in Virginia |
| 1619 | House of Burgesses established in Virginia First Africans arrive in Virginia |
| 1620 | Pilgrims found Plymouth settlement in Massachusetts |
| 1624 | Dutch establish New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island |
| 1630 | Puritans found Massachusetts Bay colony |
| 1632 | Maryland founded |
| 1635 | Roger Williams moves with followers to Rhode Island |
| 1636–1637 | Pequot War |
| 1637 | Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay colony |
| 1642–1649 | English civil war |
| 1660 | Monarchy restored in England |
| 1660–1664 | House of Burgesses passes acts that allow enslavement of African laborers |
| 1664 | Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the English |
| 1675–1676 | King Philip’s War |
| 1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion |