The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763 Part 16

Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye, by which Quebec was restored to the French.

1634. Champlain built a fort at Three Rivers.

1635. Champlain died.

Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

Captain John Mason established New Hamps.h.i.+re.

Foundation of Providence by Roger Williams.

Winthrop, the younger, governor of Connecticut.

Harry Vane, Mrs Anne Hutchinson, and John Wheelwright come to Ma.s.sachusetts.

The Pequod War.

1636. The foundation of Harvard College.

De Montmagny succeeded Champlain.

1637. The foundation of Rhode Island.

Theophilus Eaton founded New Haven.

1638. Minuit's Swedish settlement.

1640. Union of Rhode Island and Providence.

1642. Conformity Act in Virginia.

Fort Richelieu (Sorel) founded.

1643. The New England Confederacy.

1647. Peter Stuyvesant made governor of the New Netherlands.

1649. Toleration Act in Maryland.

1650. Sir William Berkeley commissioned by Charles II.

1651. Sir George Ayscue sent to subdue the West.

1651-58. The towns of Maine under the jurisdiction of Ma.s.sachusetts.

1652. Richard Bennet governor of Virginia.

1653. Le Moyne, the Jesuit, sent as an envoy to the Iroquois.

1654. War with the Nyantic Indians.

1654. Stephenson took Acadia.

1655. Peter Stuyvesant captured the Swedish settlements.

Edward Digges, Governor of Virginia.

Victory of the Protestants at Providence, Maryland.

1657. Lord Baltimore restored in Maryland.

1659. Josias Fendall, Governor of Maryland.

1661. Royal Commissioners sent to the colonies.

1662. Charles Calvert made Governor of Maryland.

Charter granted to Connecticut.

1663. Charter granted to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas.

Canada became a Royal Province.

1664. Colbert created the Company of the West.

Richard Nicolls captured New Amsterdam.

1665. Attempt of De Ruyter to retake New Amsterdam.

Marquis de Tracy made Lieutenant-General of Canada.

1666. Courcelles attacked the Iroquois.

The Treaty of Breda.

La Salle arrived in Canada.

1667. Locke's Fundamental Const.i.tutions for the Carolinas.

Terrific gale in Maryland and Virginia.

1668. Francis Lovelace made Governor of New York.

Jacques Marquette, a missioner on Lake Superior.

1669. La Salle supposed to have discovered the Ohio.

1670. Incorporation of the Hudson Bay Company.

William Sayle came from the Barbadoes to South Carolina.

1671. Sir John Yeamans, Governor of South Carolina.

1672. Count Frontenac made Governor of Canada.

Grants in Virginia to Lords Arlington and Culpeper.

1673. Cornelius Eversen retook New York.

The establishment of Fort Frontenac.

Joliet and Marquette reach the Mississippi.

1674. Death of Marquette.

The Treaty of Westminster restored New York to the English.

Carteret and Berkeley given rights in New Jersey.

Joseph West made Governor of South Carolina.

1674-1676. King Philip's War.

1675. Death of Cecil, Lord Baltimore.

1677. The end of Berkeley's rule in Virginia.

Thomas Eastchurch, Governor of Carolina.

1678. Ma.s.sachusetts purchased all rights over Maine.

La Salle given leave to discover the western parts of New France.

La Salle, De Tonty, and Father Hennepin allied as discoverers.

Fort Niagara built.

1679. La Salle sailed up Lakes Erie and Michigan.

1680. La Salle built Fort Crevecoeur on the lower Illinois.

Father Hennepin travelled on the upper Mississippi.

Edward Byllinge and certain Quakers encouraged to colonise Delaware.

1681. William Penn founded Pennsylvania.

Limitation of the franchise in Maryland.

1681-1682. La Salle descended the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

1682. End of Frontenac's first government of Canada.

Formation of the "Compagni du Nord."

1682-1683. La Salle established a French colony on the Illinois.

1682-1684. New Hamps.h.i.+re governed by Edward Cranfield.

1683. Seth Sothel, Governor of North Carolina.

Thomas Dongan, Governor of New York.

1684. La Valliere, Governor of Acadia, succeeded by Perrot.

Lord Howard of Effingham, Governor of Virginia.

The Five Nations allied with the English at Albany.

1684-1685. La Salle's expedition to Texas.

1684-1687. The Mississippi Scheme.

1685. The Marquis de Denonville, Governor of Canada.

The English colonies lose their charters.

Francis Nicholson, Deputy-Governor of New York.

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

1686. Sir Edmund Andros in Ma.s.sachusetts.

1687. Death of La Salle.

The Marquis de Denonville defeated the Iroquois.

1688. The Revolution in England.

Sir Edmund Andros plundered Pentegost.

1689. Denonville destroyed Fort Frontenac.

Count Frontenac appointed Governor of Canada for the second time.

Count Frontenac sent three raiding parties into New England.

Du Luth defeated the Iroquois on the Ottawa.