Period 1 Dates APUSH

late 1400s

Spain becomes united by marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella

1492

Reconquista is completed

1492

Columbus lands in the Bahamas

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portgual

1534

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

1565

Spanish establish St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the continental US. (builds fortress at St. Augustine)

1680

Pope’s Rebellion in New Mexico (aka the Pueblo Revolt)

1585

Raleigh establishes the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in America.

1588

Spanish Armada is defeated by England.

1607

English establish Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in Virginia.

1608

French colony at Quebec

1612

the first successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia by John Rolfe.

1619

The arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia, marking the beginning of a slave trade presence in the British colonies/Virginia House of Burgesses is established, the first legislative assembly in America.

1624

Virginia becomes a royal colony

1634

Maryland colony is founded

1649

Act of Toleration in Maryland/Charles I beheaded; Oliver Cromwell rules England

1660

Charles II Restored to English throne

1712

North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina

1733

Georgia colony is founded

1530s

English Reformation

1620

Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay

1624

Dutch found New Netherland

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1635-1636

Roger Williams convicted of hersey and finds Rhode Island colony

1637

Pequot War

1642-1648 (1640s)

English Civil War

1664

England seizes New Netherland from Dutch East and West Jersey colonies founded

1675-1676

King Philp’s War (Metacom)

1681

William Penn finds Pennsylvania colony

1688-1689

Glorious Revolution (bloodless revolution) overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England