Group 1
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--