Interactive Timeline – 1555-1640

correct incorrect THE WORLD: English merchants found Muscovy Company to trade with Russia

correct incorrect Spanish mariners discover route from Philippines to North America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Eighty Years' War begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Philip II of Spain issues Royal Orders for New Discoveries

correct incorrect French merchants establish trade in beaver pelts with Indians in Canada

correct incorrect English launch colony at Roanoke

correct incorrect Sir Francis Drake attacks and destroys St. Augustine

correct incorrect English abandon Roanoke colony

correct incorrect Guales rebel against Spanish in the Southeast

correct incorrect Spanish forces colonize New Mexico

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Edict of Nantes grants tolerance to France's Huguenots

correct incorrect Apaches begin to acquire horses from Pueblo peoples

correct incorrect Sebastián Vizcaíno explores and maps coast of California

correct incorrect May Employees of Virginia Company found Jamestown

correct incorrect Dec Powhatan warriors take John Smith captive

correct incorrect Spanish officials decide to remain in Florida and New Mexico

correct incorrect Jul French colonists found Quebec

correct incorrect First Anglo-Powhatan War

correct incorrect French colonists ally with the Montagnais and Huron against the Mohawks

correct incorrect Henry Hudson sails upriver that bears his name and founds New Netherland

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Treaty of Antwerp introduces Twelve Years' Truce in Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain

correct incorrect Santa Fé, New Mexico, founded

correct incorrect Virginia planters begin to export tobacco

correct incorrect Bermudans purchase first unfree Africans brought to English America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr William Shakespeare dies

correct incorrect Epidemic devastates Indians of coastal New England

correct incorrect Virginia Company permits colonists to own land

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Thirty Years' War begins in Europe

correct incorrect Virginia planters purchase the first unfree Africans shipped to mainland English North America

correct incorrect Virginia Company permits colonists to establish first representative assembly in English North America

correct incorrect Nov Adult male Pilgrims sign Mayflower Compact

correct incorrect Dec Pilgrims found Plymouth Colony

correct incorrect Dutch West India Company founded and charged to govern New Netherland

correct incorrect Second Anglo-Powhatan War

correct incorrect Dutch merchants create wampum industry

correct incorrect James I puts Virginia under direct royal rule

correct incorrect Colonization of St. Christopher, first permanent English colony in the West Indies, begins

correct incorrect Jesuits arrive in New France

correct incorrect New Amsterdam (now New York City) founded

correct incorrect English begin to colonize Barbados

correct incorrect English begin to colonize Nevis

correct incorrect English Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

correct incorrect Oct Plague arrives in Milan, Italy; one of the last major European outbreaks

correct incorrect More than 13,000 English emigrate to New England in "Great Migration"

correct incorrect Providence Island Company forms and begins to plan colonization of Providence Island in Caribbean

correct incorrect Jesuit Relations begins publication

correct incorrect English begin to colonize Antigua

correct incorrect French-Huron alliance renegotiated to require Jesuit missions within Huron Confederacy

correct incorrect Maryland founded

correct incorrect Connecticut founded

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sakoku Edict issued, locking Japan's borders to Japanese and Europeans; restricts Catholicism and limits trade

correct incorrect Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay and founds Providence, Rhode Island

correct incorrect Suffrage in Massachusetts Bay restricted to adult male church members

correct incorrect Harvard College founded

correct incorrect Pequot War in New England

correct incorrect New Haven Colony founded

correct incorrect Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay

correct incorrect Printing press at Harvard, English America's first, begins operating

correct incorrect Dutch West India Company issues Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions for New Netherland

correct incorrect Massachusetts Bay becomes first English North America colony to recognize slavery as a legal institution

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Epidemic in China spreads along Grand Canal; kills up to 90% of population in some towns

correct incorrect Miantonomi attempts to organize Indian alliance against New England

correct incorrect Kieft's War rages in New Netherland

correct incorrect United Colonies of New England forms

correct incorrect Third Anglo-Powhatan War