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Colonial Timeline

Paul Brassard, Lauren Cattle, Brianna Baker, Mark Hoglunds

Econ 1740

End of Feudal Era ►

The Black Death ►

Expanding Empires ►

Portuguese Overseas Expansion ►

The Cape of Good Hope ►

Spain Conquered Granada ►

1300’s --

1347 --

1400’s --

1415 --

1488 --

1492 --

Columbus Reaches the Americas ►

Treaty of Tordezillas ►

Vasco de Gama Returns From India ►

Magellan Circles the Globe ►

Spain’s Conquest of Mexico ►

Expeditions to Newfoundland ►

1494 --

1499 --

1519 --

1521 --

1578 --

Decline of Spanish Involvement in America ►

“Lost Colony” of Roanoke ►

Renewed Attempts at Colonization ►

City of Quebec Established ►

Beginnings of Jamestown ►

Jamestown Becomes More Stable ►

1588 --

1590 --

1607 --

1608 --

1609 --

1612 --

Headright System Established ►

Price of Tobacco Declines ►

The Maryland Colony ►

English Civil War begins ►

English Civil Wars ends ►

Private Family Farms ►

1618 --

1620 --

1634 --1642 --

1649 --

British Parliament introduced the first of the Navigation Acts ►

First coins in the colonies of low bullion content minted in Massachusetts ►

Navigation Act of 1660 ►

1651 --

1660 --

End of circulation of wampum as legal tender for private debts in Massachusetts ►

Navigation Act of 1663 ►

Dutch loss of power in North America ►

1661--

1663--

1664--

The Rhode Island Colony ►

The Pennsylvania Colony ►

First paper money in the colonies issued ►

1681--

1690--

System of admiralty courts established to enforce the Navigation Acts ►

Productivity in the Middle Colonies ►

1696--

End of use of wampum as money in New York ►

Scotland added as a legal destination for enumerated goods ►

1701--

1707--

Scottish factors introduced into the Chesapeake Bay area ►

Colonial Population Grows ►

Transatlantic shipping insurance rates reach a low-point ►

1720--

Navigation Acts regulations relaxed slightly ►

Maryland Tobacco Inspection Act ►

1730--

1747--

Currency Act of 1751 ►

French and Indian War ►

The Treaty of Paris ►

1756--

1763--

Currency Act of 1764 ►

The Sugar Act is passed ►

The French government withdraws wartime taxes ►

The Stamp Act ►

The Quartering Act ►

Holy Roman Emperor ►

1765--

Steam engine breakthrough ►

Stamp Act repeal ►

Freedom of the Press Act ►

1766--

The Steller’s sea cow extinct ►

France conquers Corsica ►

The Boston Massacre ►

1768--

1770--

Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste ►

Eraser ►

The Bengal famine ►

Plague Riot in Moscow ►

The first Committee of Correspondence ►

The Tea Act ►

America's first insane asylum ►

Boston Tea Party ►

1771--

1773--

Intolerable Acts ►

The Quebec Act ►

The First Continental Congress ►

The American Revolution begins ► 1775--

"Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech ►

The 250th pope ►

Common Sense ►

The Wealth of Nations ►

United States Declaration of Independence ►

World's first submarine attack ►

Market for Indentured Servitude Declines ►

Approximately Ninety Percent of Americans involved in agriculture ►

1800--