1534 |
- English Reformation begins.
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1609 |
- Henry Hudson searches for Northwest Passage.
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1620 |
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1626 |
- Manhattan Island purchased; New Amsterdam founded.
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1629 |
- Massachusetts Bay Company receives royal charter.
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1630 |
- John Winthrop leads Puritan settlers to Massachusetts Bay.
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1636 |
- Rhode Island colony established.
- Connecticut colony founded.
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1636–1637 |
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1638 |
- Anne Hutchinson excommunicated.
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1642 |
- Puritan Revolution inflames England.
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1649 |
- English Puritans win civil war.
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1656 |
- Quakers arrive in Massachusetts and are persecuted.
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1660 |
- Monarchy restored in England.
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1662 |
- Many Puritan congregations adopt Halfway Covenant.
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1664 |
- English seize Dutch colony, rename it New York.
- Colony of New Jersey created.
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1675–1676 |
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1681 |
- Colony of Pennsylvania founded.
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1686 |
- Dominion of New England created.
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1688 |
- England’s Glorious Revolution.
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1689–1697 |
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1692 |
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