Interactive Timeline – 1640-1700

correct incorrect Sugar boom begins on Barbados

correct incorrect Puritan migration to New England halts

correct incorrect THE WORLD: English Civil War erupts

correct incorrect First colonial ship carrying enslaved Africans to North America docks in Boston

correct incorrect Apalachee rebellion in Florida

correct incorrect Iroquois attacks destroy Huron Confederacy

correct incorrect Predecessor of New England Company founded to promote conversion of New England Indians

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Charles I beheaded; England becomes a commonwealth

correct incorrect First Navigation Act to regulate commerce of English colonies

correct incorrect First Anglo-Dutch War

correct incorrect Rhode Island outlaws lifelong slavery for Europeans and Africans

correct incorrect Timucua rebel in Florida

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Monarchy restored to England with crowning of Charles II

correct incorrect Barbados legislators create colonial English America's first comprehensive slave code

correct incorrect Royal Society of London founded and colonists admitted as members

correct incorrect Virginia lawmakers decide that children should inherit their legal status from mothers rather than fathers

correct incorrect Proprietors received English royal charter to Carolina

correct incorrect Antecedent of Royal African Company granted monopoly to ship enslaved Africans

correct incorrect Second Anglo-Dutch War

correct incorrect Aug English forces conquer New Netherland and rename it New York

correct incorrect Sep French raid on Mohawk country

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Great Fire of London destroys over 13,000 buildings and properties

correct incorrect Jun Mohawks join rest of Five Nations in peace treaty with New France

correct incorrect Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina written

correct incorrect First permanent English settlement in South Carolina Hudson's Bay Company Founded

correct incorrect Third Anglo-Dutch War

correct incorrect Jul New York captured by Dutch and renamed New Netherland

correct incorrect Oct Dutch return New York to English control

correct incorrect Jun King Philip's War begins in southern New England

correct incorrect Jul Doeg Indian raid into Virginia sparks Bacon's Rebellion

correct incorrect Sep King Philip's War spreads to northern New England

correct incorrect Aug King Philip's War ends in southern New England

correct incorrect Oct Bacon's Rebellion ends

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Beginning of Russo-Turkish War

correct incorrect Apr English colonies and Iroquois League establish Covenant Chain

correct incorrect Aug King Philip's War ends in northern New England

correct incorrect Aug Pueblo War for Independence drives Spanish from New Mexico

correct incorrect Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn

correct incorrect Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative published

correct incorrect Philadelphia founded

correct incorrect Robert Cavalier de La Salle arrives at mouth of Mississippi River, claims watershed for France, and renames area Louisiana

correct incorrect James II crowned king of England

correct incorrect Dominion of New England established

correct incorrect "Glorious Revolution" in England

correct incorrect James II forced to abdicate throne

correct incorrect THE WORLD: William and Mary crowned king and queen of England

correct incorrect Revolts inspired by "Glorious Revolution" overthrow governments of Massachusetts Bay, New York, and Maryland

correct incorrect Apr Dominion of New England terminated

correct incorrect "King William's War"

correct incorrect Massachusetts granted new royal charter

correct incorrect Jan Salem witch crisis begins

correct incorrect Aug Spanish forces begin to reconquer New Mexico

correct incorrect May Salem witch crisis ends

correct incorrect Nov Spanish complete reconquest of New Mexico and end Pueblo War for Independence