17th Century

  • Mestizos

    Mestizos: make up a large part of Colonial population
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    17th Century

  • Port Royal Established

    Traders establish Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) and launch trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod
  • Jamestown Founded

    Jamestown: founded by the London Company, the first permanent English settlement
  • Santa Fe founded

    Santa Fe: first permanent European settlement in the Southwest
  • House of Burgess

    The House meets for the first time in Virginia
  • Plymouth Colony

    Plymouth Colony: established by Pilgrims from England
  • Interracial Marriage

    New Amsterdam's first African marriage
  • Seizing of New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam: seized by the English from the Dutch and is renamed "New York"
  • Protestantism Criminalized

    France criminalizes Protestantism