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| 1607 | Jamestown founded |
| 1608 | Champlain founds Quebec |
| 1609 | Henry Hudson explores Hudson River |
| 1611 | First Virginia tobacco crop harvested |
| 1619 | First Africans arrive in Virginia |
| 1620 | Plymouth Colony founded House of Burgesses established in Virginia |
| 1622 | Powhatan Confederacy attacks Virginia settlers |
| 1630 | Massachusetts Bay Colony founded |
| 1635 | Roger Williams establishes Rhode Island colony |
| 1637 | Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Pequot War |
| 1638 | Harvard College founded |
| 1642-1648 | English Civil War |
| 1647 | Massachusetts law requires a public school in every town |
| 1649 | Charles I executed |
| 1660 | Charles II becomes king |
| 1662 | Halfway Covenant established in New England |
| 1673 | Marquette and Jolliet explore Great Lakes and Mississippi River valley |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia |
| 1681 | Pennsylvania established |
| 1682 | La Salle reaches mouth of Mississippi River |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution; William and Mary succeed James II |
| 1689 | Leisler's Rebellion |
| 1692 | Witchcraft trials begin in Salem |
| 1696 | Board of Trade established |
| 1714 | George I takes throne, beginning Hanover dynasty |
| 1734 | Great Awakening begins John Peter Zenger found innocent of seditious libel |
| 1739 | Stono Rebellion in South Carolina |
| 1755 | Franklin establishes College of Philadelphia |
| 1765 | Hudson River land riots |
| 1767 | Regulator movement in South Carolina |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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