AP Unit 1: Date Review

1491

Pre-Columbus, Native Americans untouched by European contact

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1534

Cartier (french explorer) journeys up the St. Lawrence River

1603

Champlain established fur trade in New France

1608

Chaplain created colonial Quebec

1511

First Spanish settlement in Cuba

1521

Cortez conquered the Mexica (Aztecs)

1585

Sir Walter Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island

1607

Jamestown, the first, permanent, English settlement was founded.

1620

Plymouth colony established by English Separatists (Pilgrims)

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1619

First Africans arrive in Jamestown &
Virginia House of Burgesses established

1680

Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico

1609-1610

"Starving time" in Virginia

1663

Founding of Carolina Colony

1681

William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony (Quaker refuge)

1632

Maryland (as a Catholic refuge) founded by Lord Baltimore

1739

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1741

Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

1754-63

French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1676

Bacon's Rebellion