APUSH CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

Every single event courtesy of the 2024 APUSH textbook (Yorktown APUSH ftw https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qtpEFKeWziYqHXkN0LSJbYHYpjnktBr_YXlzKpMvUQs/edit?gid=0#gid=0)

1497

John cabot sails to northeastern coast of North America - 1st england / new world contact docmtd

1516

Utopia by Sir Thomas More published in Latin

1555

Muscovy Company established

1565

Saint Augustine - first American settlement (by Spanish in flordia)

1527-1590

English Reformation - birth of Puritan Separatists

1560s-70s

English colonization of Ireland (resented assimilation)

1583

Sir Humphrey Gilbert took possession of Newfoundland but died in a storm

1585

Barbary Company established

1588

Philip II of Spain failed at invading England, disabling the Spanish fleet

1590

John White returns to Roanoke to find it deserted (Croatan)

1592

Levant Company established

1600

East India Company established

1604

King James I denounces tobacco in "A Counterblaste to Tobacco"

1606

James I issues charters to the London and Plymouth groups of merchants

1607

Godspeed, Discovery, and the Susan Constant set sail for America - found Jamestown

1607

First indentured servants arrive at Jamestown

1608

Quebec founded - France's first permanent settlement by Samuel Champlain

1609

Starving Time in jamestown

1612

John Rolfe starts cultivating tobacco

1610

First Anglo-Powhatan War

1618

Headright system launched

1618

Guinea Company Established

1619

House of Burgesses established (July 30th), African Slaves introduced

1620

Mayflower Compact (Nov 11)

1621

First Thanksgiving in New England

1621

Chief Massasoit Treaty

1622

Miles Standish establishes a semi-military regime (Bradford elected eventually)

1624

Dutch West India Company establish permanent trading posts on Hudson, Delaware, Conneticut Rivers

1624

King James revokes Virginia's charter, becomes royal colony

1629

Others (non-separatists) got a royal charter to form MA Bay Colony

1630

John Winthrop arrives with new settlers and charter at Boston; Great Migration

1630

"A Modell of Christian Charity" - John Winthrop

1632

Maryland charter granted to George Calvert

1634

Maryland kicks off as a proprietary colony (Ark and Dove)

1635

Thomas Hooker leads his parish to found Hartford, Connecticut --> Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1635

Roger Williams guilty for preaching "new and dangerous" ideas

1636

Roger Williams founds Rhode Island

1636

Harvard established by General Court of Massachusetts - first American college - for training ministers

1636-1637

Pequot Wars

1638

Anne Hutchinson counfounded leaders (ministers) and challenged the societal order.

1639

John Wheelwright leads Hutschinson disciples to Exeter, New Hampshire

1639

Fundamental Articles of New Haven

1642

Sir William Berkeley arrives as gov of Virginia

1644

Virginia calls for "Perpetual War" with the Powhatans

1644

Roger Williams obtains charter for Rhode Island

1644-1646

Second Anglo-Powhatan War

1646

Peace treaty, powhatans removed from the area

1646

Oliver Cromwell victorious in First English Civil War

1647

Massachusetts Education Act

1649

Religious Toleration Act

1657

Governor William Bradford dies

1660

Navigation Acts of ____ - restricted ship and crew ethnic origins, helped shipbuilding industry

1662

Slave Codes introducing chattel slavery

1663

Staple Act of ____ - handling fees

1663-1665

Eight court favorites of Charles II awarded charters for the Carolinas

1669

Fundamental Constitution for Carolina - Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper) and John Locke

1670

Earl of Shaftesbury sets out with first of migrations from England to Carolina

1670

Louis Joliet & Father Jacques Marquette journey from Lake Michigan down the mississippi

1673

Nathaniel Bacon arrives in Virginia

1675-1676

King Philip's War (Metacom's War) (Metacomet????)

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1679

New Hampshire becomes a separate colony

1679

Woolens Act of ____ - woolen goods couldn't be exported out of the manufacturing colony

1680

Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico

1682

William Penn sails to his inhereted land to plan out Philadelphia and colonial structure

1682

Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, reaches Mississippi delta, names Louisiana as french territory

1686

James II creates the Dominion of New England, with the sole governor Sir Edmund Andros

1689

John Coode's Rebellion -> 1691 converts Maryland to a royal colony

1969

Glorious Revolution

1690

Seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony created

1691

Dominion of New England dissolved

1692-1693

Salem Witch Trials

1695

Royal African Company of England loses monopoly on slaves - slave imports to British America increase

1701

Penn agrees to a Charter of Liberties, limiting his power

1701

Yale College founded due to "growing religious liberalism of Harvard"

1702

New Jersey becomes a royal colony

1703

Three "lower" counties become a separate colony - Delaware

1713

Treaty of Utrecht brings Queen Anne's War to a close (started in 1701)

1715

Maryland un-royals itself (proprietary colony again)

1718

New Orleans founded to support plantation economy

1719

Colonists seize control from proprietors after Shaftesbury's death

1721

Reverend Cotton Mather pioneered smallpox inoculation - Onesimus (slave)

1729

King of England divides into North and South Carolina

1732

George II grants General Games Oglethorpe control of Georgia as military buffer

1732

Hat Act of ____ - beaver hats couldn't be exported from the manufacturing colony

1733

Molasses Act of ____ - received poorly and ignored by colonies

1734-1735

New York v. John Peter Zenger - truth is a defense against Libel

1739

Stono Rebellion

1740

Indigo introduced to South Carolina economy - staple crop

1741

Jonathon Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon

1743

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye, views the Rocky Mountains

1744-1748

King George's War

1746

Princeton (College of New Jersey) founded due to Great Awakening

1750

Iron Act of ____ - prevented colonies from making finished iron goods (only raw)

1751

Control of Georgia is returned to the King of England after numerous failures and discomfort

1752

Ben Franklin does his kite demonstration

1754

Ben Franklin proposes the Albany Plan (rejected by the colonial assemblies)

1754

George Washington constructs Fort Necessity, but French defeat them

1755

General Edward Braddock failed to retake Fort Necessity - dies in the attempt

1756

England and France declare war on each other - fighting becomes international