discouraged colonists had embarked to return te dngland) with supplies, and saves the settlement. 1613-Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, an Englishman. -The Dutch erect a fort at New York.

1615-They build Fort Orange, near Albany.

1619 The first General Assembly elected by the people is called in Virginia, by Governor Yeardley. Eleven boroughs, or towns, were each represented by two Burgesses, or citizens. It was the dawn of civil liberty in Virginia, and a germ of the future republic.

1620-Convicts are sent to Virginia, and negro slaves introduced.

-September 6th, the Puritans, discontented in Holland,

set sail in the Mayflower, from Plymouth, England, for America, under the auspices of the "Plymouth Company."

-December 21st they land on Plymouth Rock, and, amid
great hardships, found a religious colony.

-James I. grants a charter to the Grand Council of
Plymouth for governing New England.

1621-A district called Mariana granted to John Mason.
-Plymouth colony makes a treaty with Massasoit.
-Cotton first planted in Virginia.

1622-Sir Ferdinand Gorges and John Mason obtain a charter of Maine and New Hampshire. They plant a colony on the Piscataqua river.

-An Indian conspiracy nearly proves fatal to the Virginia colony. March 22d, at noon, an attack is made on all the settlements, and in an hour nearly a fourth part of the colony is massacred. The colonists, in a bloody war, thoroughly chastise the Indians. 1624-Virginia becomes a royal province, but stoutly maintains its legislative authority.

1625-Death of Robinson, the distinguished Puritan divine, in Holland.

1629-Massachusetts colony patented, and settlement made at

Salem, by John Endicott.

-Charlestown, Mass., founded.

The Dutch colonize the west side of Delaware river. 1630-Patent of Carolina made to Sir Robert Heath.

1631-Massachusetts General Court confines the privilege of voting to church members.

Clayborne plants a colony on Kent Island.

The Dutch erect a trading fort at Hartford. 1632-Maryland granted to Lord Baltimore. 1633-Connecticut colony founded.

1636-Roger Williams founds Providence.

1637-Pequod war in Connecticut.

1638-Rhode Island settled by followers of Anne Hutchinson.

-Harvard college founded.

-Swedes and Finns settle Delaware.

-Colony of New Haven founded. Persecution in Massachusetts.

1640-Montreal, Canada, founded.

1641-New Hampshire united to Massachusetts.

1643-The germ of the American Union is planted by a confederation of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. It was for mutual protection and support, and was kept alive about forty years. 1645-Clayborne causes an insurrection in Maryland.

The Mohawks mediate between the Dutch and Algonquins.

-Witchcraft superstition commences.

1646-John Elliott becomes a missionary to the Indians. 1649 The Mohawk war on the French settlements and Jesuits.

1650-Common School laws passed in Connecticut. 1651-English "Navigation Act" forbids colonists to trade

with any country but England, and restricts trade among the colonies. Thus the English make all the

profits. English merchants set the price of purchases

and sales.

1651-Persecution of the Quakers in Massachusetts.

-Proprietary government subverted in Maryland. 1657-Elliott translates the Bible into the Indian language. 1662-Winthrop obtains a liberal charter for Hartford and New Haven.

1663-Carolina granted to a company of Noblemen. 1664 The Dutch conquer the Swedes on the Delaware.

New York granted to the Duke of York, who sends a force to dispossess the Dutch. It is done without fighting.

New Jersey granted to Berkely and Carteret. 1665-Lake Superior discovered by Father Allouez. 1668-St. Mary's, between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, the first French settlement within the boundaries of the United States, founded.

1670-Mr. Locke's philosophical constitution introduced in Carolina. It soon proved an absurd failure.

1673--The Upper Mississippi discovered by Marquette. 1675-King Philip's war in New England. He was a warrior

of great ability and activity. Fourteen town were destroyed by the Indians, and six hundred inhabitants killed. Philip is killed August 12, 1676, and the Indian tribes very nearly destroyed.

1676-Three of the Regicides (Judges of Charles I., King of England) came to New England.

-New Jersey divided into East and West Jersey, at the suggestion of Win. Penn.

Bacon's rebellion in favor of popular rights, in Vir ginia.

1677-Virginia obtains a new charter.

Massachusetts purchases Maine.

1678-Sir Edmund Andross, royal governor of New York, usurps the government of the Jerseys.

1679-New Hampshire becomes a royal province, but the

people make a successful stand for their legislative
privileges.

-Massachusetts having disregarded the Navigation Act,
Edward Randolph was sent as Inspector of Customs.
He failed to enforce the act, and in 1682 the charter of
Massachusetts was annulled.

1580-Charleston, South Carolina, founded.

1681-Wm. Penn receives a grant of Pennsylvania from Charles II.

-Penn restores the proprietary government in the Jerseys. -He founds Philadelphia; makes a treaty with the Indians; and governs East Jersey.

1682-La Salle visits and names Louisiana.

1686-Sir Edmund Andross being made Governor-General over New England, proceeds in a very tyrannical manner. He endeavored to get possession of the charter of Connecticut, but failed, though he took possession of the government.

1688-New York and New Jersey came under the jurisdiction of Andross; but James II., the tyrannical King of England, being deposed, Massachusetts imprisoned Andross. Rhode Island and Connecticut resumed their charter governments; but Massachusetts, having given offense by resistance to the Navigation Act, never recovered her original charter.

-France having espoused the cause of the dethroned king, a war broke out between France and England, known as "King William's" war.

1689-The government of New York is seized by Jacob Leisler for King William.

1690--May 1st, a Congress of colonial delegates meets at New
York to concert measures for the common defense.

February 18th, destruction of Schenectady, N. Y., and
massacre of the inhabitants by the Indians, sent by
the French, from Canada.

-March 18th, Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, on the

Piscataqua river, is destroyed by the French and Indi-
ans. Casco, Maine, is also destroyed.

-Sir William Phipps, Governor of Massachusetts, invades
Canada, unsuccessfully.

-French Protestants settle in Virginia and Carolina. 1691-Slaughter becomes Governor of New York. He executes Leisler.

1692-Massachusetts receives a new charter. Her limits are enlarged, but her privileges restricted.

-Texas settled by the Spaniards, at Bexar. 1695-Rice brought to Carolina, from Africa.

1697-The Peace of Ryswick terminates King William's war. 1698-Piracies of Captain Kidd. He was tried and executed in England, in 1701.

1699-Pensacola is settled by the Spaniards.

1701-William Penn grants a new charter to Pennsylvania. 1702-The Jerseys united and joined to New York.

"Queen Anne's war" breaks out. New England suffered much from the ravages of the Indians.

-Governor Moore, of South Carolina, attacks St. Augustine, but without success.

-Mobile founded by d'Iberville, with a colony of Canadian French.

-The Massachusetts Assembly contend with the royal governor for their former liberties. Their charter is still further restricted.

1703--Delaware (called The Territories) is separated from Pennsylvania.

1706-The French and Spaniards invade Carolina. They are repulsed with loss.

1707-Detroit, Michigan, settled by the French.

1710-Many thousand Germans, from the Palatinate, settle in the colonies, from New York to the Carolinas. 1712-A war with the Tuscaroras, in North Carolina, results in their complete defeat. They unite with the Iroquois.