Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

Late 1500s Formation of Powhatan's Confederacy: an Indian empire takes shape along the Chesapeake

1603 James I becomes king of England: beginning of Stuart dynasty

1604 First English settlements in the Caribbean

1607 English settle Jamestown: the founding of the first permanent English colony on the mainland of North America

1610 Founding of Santa Fe: Spanish establish a capital for their empire in the present-day southwestern United States

1619 First African-Americans arrive in Virginia

1620s Tobacco boom in Virginia: the beginning of a monoculture in the Chesapeake

1622 White-Indian warfare in Virginia: enormous casualties weaken both sides

1624 Virginia becomes a royal colony: political control passes from the Virginia company to the monarchy

1625 Charles I becomes king of England

1632 Calvert founds Maryland: Virginians resent competition from another tobacco-growing colony

1640s Sugar boom begins in the Caribbean: slaves become more numerous and land more scarce

1660 Parliament passes the first of the Navigation Acts: England begins to regulate its colonial trade

1669 First permanent white settlement in South Carolina

1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia: civil war engulfs the colony

1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico: massive Indian resistance to Spanish colonization

1689 Coode’s Rebellion in Maryland: civil war engulfs the colony.

ca. 1700 Rice boom begins in South Carolina: slave importations increase dramatically

1715 Yamasee Uprising in South Carolina: native Indian tribes push white settlement back to Charleston

1730 Chartering of Georgia

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