
Premium
Title Page
1/19/2025
Table of Contents
1/19/2025
January 9, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Sees First Sight Of Manatees
1/19/2025
October 19, 1469 - Ferdinand and Isabella Marry, Uniting Aragon and Castile
1/19/2025
April 29, 1483 - Gran Canaria Conquered By the Kingdom Of Castile
1/19/2025
May 1, 1486 - Christopher Columbus' Initial Meeting With Queen Isabella
1/19/2025
January 02, 1492 - Spain Recaptures Granada from the Moors
1/19/2025
April 17, 1492 Christopher Columbus Signs Contract With Spain to Find the Indies
1/19/2025
August 3, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Sets Sail On His First Voyage
1/19/2025
August 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Arrives In The Canary Islands
1/19/2025
October 12, 1492 - Columbus Arrives In The Bahamas
1/19/2025
October 16, 1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1/19/2025
October 28, 1492 Columbus Reaches Cuba on First Voyage
1/19/2025
November 05, 1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize
1/19/2025
November 15, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Notes First Reference to Tobacco Smoking
1/19/2025
November 21, 1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus
1/19/2025
December 05, 1492 - Columbus Turns South - Missing Florida
1/19/2025
December 25, 1492 - The Santa Maria Runs Aground
1/19/2025
December 26, 1492 First Spanish Settlement In New World Founded By Columbus
1/19/2025
January 06, 1493 - Martín Alonso Pinzón and Columbus Reunite
1/19/2025
January 16, 1493 Columbus Returns To Spain On His First Trip
1/19/2025
February 15, 1493 - Half of Columbus' Crew Imprisoned in the Azores Islands
1/19/2025
March 04, 1493 - Columbus Lands at Lisbon, Portugal
1/19/2025
March 15, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Returns To Spain After First Voyage
1/19/2025
September 24, 1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1/19/2025
November 03, 1493 - Columbus Sights Dominica
1/19/2025
November 19, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Discovers Puerto Rico
1/19/2025
November 28, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Returns to La Navidad,
1/19/2025
December 6, 1493 - Haiti discovered by Columbus
1/19/2025
December 08, 1493 - Columbus Founds La Isabela
1/19/2025
April 24, 1494 - Columbus Departs La Isabela to Explore
1/19/2025
May 4, 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1/19/2025
July 02, 1494 - Spain Ratified the Treaty of Tordesillas
1/19/2025
August 20, 1494 - Columbus Returned To Hispaniola
1/19/2025
March 10, 1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the New World.
1/19/2025
May 2, 1497 - John Cabot departs to North-America
1/19/2025
May 10, 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci Leaves For First Voyage To New World
1/19/2025
June 24, 1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
1/19/2025
August 06, 1497 - John Cabot Returned to England
1/19/2025
May 30, 1498 - Columbus Departs With Six Ships for Third Trip to America
1/19/2025
July 31, 1498 - Columbus Makes Landfall on Trinidad
1/19/2025
August 01, 1498 - Columbus Lands on South America
1/19/2025
August 16, 1498 - Christopher Columbus reached Magarita Island (Venezuela)
1/19/2025
August 19, 1498 - Arrival at Hispaniola
1/19/2025
October 01, 1500 - Columbus Sent Back to Spain in Chains
1/19/2025
May 9, 1502 - Columbus Left Spain On His Fourth And Final Trip To New World
1/19/2025
June 29, 1502 - Columbus Arrives Santo Domingo - Fourth Voyage
1/19/2025
July 30, 1502 - Columbus First Contact with Maya
1/19/2025
October 16, 1502 - Columbus Arrives at Almirante Bay, Panama
1/19/2025
January 09, 1503 - Columbus Builds Garrison Mouth of Rio Belen
1/19/2025
January 20, 1503 - Casa Contratacion Founded To Deal With American Affairs
1/19/2025
June 25, 1503 - Columbus Shipwrecked on Jamaica
1/19/2025
November 07, 1504 - Columbus Returned To Spain Following His Fourth Voyage
1/19/2025
May 20, 1506 - Christopher Columbus Died
1/19/2025
April 25, 1507 - Geographer Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann First Used the Name America
1/19/2025
March 27, 1513 - Spanish Explorer Sights Florida
1/19/2025
April 2, 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1/19/2025
March 06, 1521 - Magellan Discovers Guam
1/19/2025
January 17, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Departs for First North American Exploration
1/19/2025
March 01, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Arrives Cape Fear, North Carolina
1/19/2025
April 17, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Enters Hudson Bay
1/19/2025
July 08, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Returns to France
1/19/2025
September 29, 1526 - Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón Lands in South Carolina
1/19/2025
October 8, 1525 - First European Settlement in North America Founded
1/19/2025
December 25, 1526 - Pánfilo de Narváez Receives License to Settle in Florida
1/19/2025
June 17, 1527 - Narváez Expedition Departs Spain
1/19/2025
April 12, 1528 - Narváez Expedition Arrives Florida
1/19/2025
August 03, 1527 – First Documented Letter Sent From British North America
1/19/2025
November 06, 1528 - Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca Becomes First European in Texas
1/19/2025
April 20, 1534 - Jacques Cartier Departs St. Malo To Explore Canadian Coastline
1/19/2025
May 19, 1535 - Jacques Cartier Set Sail For A Second Voyage
1/19/2025
May 28, 1539 - Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1/19/2025
February 23, 1540 - Coronado Begins Search For the Seven Cities of Gold
1/19/2025
April 22, 1522 - Treaty of Saragosa Spain & Portugal Divide Eastern Hemisphere
1/19/2025
May 8, 1541 - Hernando De Soto Reaches the Mississippi River
1/19/2025
May 23, 1541 Cartier Departed Saint-Malo on His Third Voyage With Five Ships
1/19/2025
September 30, 1541 - Hernando De Soto And His Forces Enter Tula Territory
1/19/2025
May 12, 1542 - Hernando de Soto Died on the Banks of the Mississippi River
1/19/2025
November 20, 1542 - Spain Delegates "New Laws" Against Slavery In America
1/19/2025
September 19, 1559 - Hurricane Destroys First Spanish Settlement at Pensacola
1/19/2025
December 09, 1561- Edwin Sandys Born
1/19/2025
June 11, 1562 - Jean Ribault Leaves Twenty-Eight Men on Parris Island NC
1/19/2025
June 22, 1564 - French Establish Fort Caroline in Florida
1/19/2025
October 18, 1564 - John Hawkins Second Voyage - Established English Slave Trade
1/19/2025
September 08, 1565 - Founding of St. Augustine
1/19/2025
September 28, 1565 - Jean Ribault Returns with Relief Expedition to Fort Caroline
1/19/2025
September 20 - 1565 - Spanish Destroy Fort Caroline
1/19/2025
September 29, 1565 - Massacre at Matanzas Inlet
1/19/2025
November 15, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake Sets out to Circumnavigate the Earth
1/19/2025
December 13, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake Second Departure on Quest to Circumnavigate the Earth
1/19/2025
June 17, 1579 - Sir Francis Drake Lands On the Coast Of California
1/19/2025
September 26, 1580 - Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England
1/19/2025
June 11, 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert Departs England for New Foundland
1/19/2025
August 05, 1583 - Gilbert claims Newfoundland
1/19/2025
August 29, 1583 - Wreck of the Delight- Gilbert Expedition
1/19/2025
September 09, 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his Ship the Squirrel Disappear in a Storm
1/19/2025
March 25, 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh Receives Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
1/19/2025
July 04, 1584 - First Explorers of Roanoke Island Arrive
1/19/2025
April 09, 1585 - First Settlers Depart England for Roanoke Island
1/19/2025
May 19, 1585 - Spain Seized English Merchant Ships - Spawns the Anglo-Spanish War
1/19/2025
September 14, 1585 - Drake Departs on the Great Raid
1/19/2025
November 11, 1585 - Sir Francis Drake Raids Santiago
1/19/2025
January 01, 1586 - Sir Francis Drake Raids Santo Domingo
1/19/2025
June 6, 1586 - Sir Francis Drake Raid on St. Augustine
1/19/2025
June 19, 1586 - First Attempt to Settle Roanoke Island Fails As English Colonists Flee
1/19/2025
July 3, 1586 - Grenville Returns to Roanoke Island to Re-supply the First Colony
1/19/2025
July 28, 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to the English Isles
1/19/2025
May 8, 1587 - Second Group of Settlers Depart England for Roanoke Island
1/19/2025
July 22, 1587 - Lost Colony Established
1/19/2025
August 18, 1587 - Virginia Dare - First English Child Born In The New World
1/19/2025
July 21, 1588 - English Fleet Begins Bombardment of the Spanish Armada
1/19/2025
July 29, 1588 - Spanish Armada Defeated and Scattered By English Defenders
1/19/2025
October 24, 1590 – John White Returns to England From Lost Colony of Roanoke
1/19/2025
April 30, 1598 - Juan de Oñate Claims all of the territory drained by the Rio Grande
1/19/2025
June 23, 1601 - Juan de Oñate Begins Great Plains Expedition
1/19/2025
May 15, 1602 - Cape Cod Discovered By English Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1/19/2025
November 12, 1602 - Sebastián Vizcaíno Names San Diego
1/19/2025
December 16, 1602 - Sebastian Vizcaíno Enters Monterey Bay
1/19/2025
September 05, 1604 - Samuel Champlain Sights Isles des Monts Desert
1/19/2025
April 10, 1606 - The First Charter Of Virginia Is Adopted
1/19/2025
December 20, 1606 - English Colonists Sail From London to Found Jamestown Colony
1/19/2025
April 26, 1607 - First British to Establish an American Colony Land At Cape Henry VA
1/19/2025
May 14, 1607 - English Colonists Land Near James River in Virginia
1/19/2025
May 26, 1607 - Jamestown Residents Under Attack
1/19/2025
August 13, 1607 - Popham Colony Established
1/19/2025
August 31, 1607 - Maine's First Ship Begun - Pinnace Virginia
1/19/2025
September 17, 1607 - First Jury Award in the English Colonies
1/19/2025
September 28, 1607 - Samuel de Champlain and his Colonists Depart Nova Scotia
1/19/2025
January 7, 1698 - Fire Destroys Jamestown Virginia
1/19/2025
July 03, 1608 - Samuel De Champlain Founds Quebec City
1/19/2025
June 02, 1608 - Smith's First Chesapeake Voyage
1/19/2025
August 13, 1608 - John Smith's Story Of Jamestown's First Days Submitted For Publication
1/19/2025
September 10, 1608 - John Smith Takes Over as Governor of Jamestown
1/19/2025
October 01, 1608 - First Non-English Settlers Arrived in Jamestown
1/19/2025
June 2, 1609 - Sea Venture - Third Supply Shipment For Jamestown Leaves Plymouth, England
1/19/2025
July 28, 1609- Wreck of the Sea Venture - Third Jamestown Supply Mission
1/19/2025
September 3, 1609 - Hudson Sailed Into New York's Harbor
1/19/2025
September 7, 1609 - Shipwreck Survivors on Burmuda Begin Building the Ship Patience
1/19/2025
September 12, 1609 - Henry Hudson Enters Hudson River
1/19/2025
September 23, 1609 - Henry Hudson Departs North America
1/19/2025
February 28, 1610 - Thomas West Baron De La Warr Appointed First Governor of Virginia
1/19/2025
May 24, 1610 - Sir Thomas Gates Institutes "Laws Divine Moral And Martiall
1/19/2025
June 8, 1610 - Thomas West Saves Jamestown Colony
1/19/2025
August 02, 1610 - Henry Hudson Discovers Hudson Bay
1/19/2025
August 9, 1610 - Lord De la Warr Initiated the First Anglo-Powhatan War
1/19/2025
June 22, 1611 - Hudson's Crew Mutinies
1/19/2025
October 20, 1611 - Hudson's Discovery Returns to London
1/19/2025
July 2, 1613 - Samuel Argall Leads English Expedition to Mount Desert Island
1/19/2025
July 20, 1613 - John Rolf in Virginia Receives First Tobacco Samples
1/19/2025
April 14, 1614 - Pocahontas Daughter Of Chief Powhatan Marries Planter John Rolfe
1/19/2025
October 11, 1614 - Adriaen Block Petitions for Exclusive New Netherlands Trading Rights
1/19/2025
June 12, 1616 - Pocahontas and John Rolfe arrive in London
1/19/2025
November 18, 1618 - Great Charter of Virginia Drafted
1/19/2025
April 19, 1619 - Governor George Yeardly Arrives Jamestown
1/19/2025
July 17, 1619 - First Labor Strike in Colonial America Ends
1/19/2025
July 30, 1619 – Virginia Company Formed First Elective Colonial Governing Body
1/19/2025
August 29, 1619 ? - First BlacksLand at Jamestown Virginia
1/19/2025
January 31, 1620 - Virginia Colony Leaders Request More Orphans for Workers
1/19/2025
February 02, 1620 - First Pierce Patent to Pilgrims
1/19/2025
July 22, 1620 - Pilgrims Depart Delfshaven, Netherlands for England
1/19/2025
August 15, 1620 - Mayflower Sets Sail From England
1/19/2025
November 03, 1620 - Council for New England Organized
1/19/2025
November 11. 1620 - Mayflower Compact Signed
1/19/2025
November 20, 1620 - Birth of First English Child in New England
1/19/2025
December 21, 1620 - Pilgrims Assigned Out House-Plots To 19 Family Groups
1/19/2025
January 7, 1621 - Plymouth Settlers Divided Into 19 Families
1/19/2025
February 17, 1621 - Miles Standish Appointed First Commander of Plymouth Colony
1/19/2025
March 16, 1621 - Samoset First Visits Plymouth Colony
1/19/2025
March 22, 1621 - Massasoit and Pilgrims Agree On League Of Friendship
1/19/2025
April 5, 1621 - Mayflower Sails From Plymouth on a Return Trip to England
1/19/2025
June 3, 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
1/19/2025
June 18, 1621 - The First Duel In America Took Place
1/19/2025
December 05 - 1621 - First Report of European Honeybees in the Colonies
1/19/2025
March 22, 1622 - Second Powhatan War Begins With Massacre
1/19/2025
September 04, 1622 - Ill Fated Treasure Ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha Departs Havanna
1/19/2025
June 14, 1623 - First Breach-Of-Promise Lawsuit In Colonies
1/19/2025
September 10, 1623 - First Cargo Departs New Plymouth for England - Lumber and Furs
1/19/2025
March 29, 1624 - First Wave of Dutch Settlers Depart for New Netherlands
1/19/2025
June 16, 1624 - Virginia Company Loses Charter - Virginia Becomes Crown Colony
1/19/2025
May 4, 1626 - Peter Minuit Becomes Director-General of New Netherlands
1/19/2025
May 6, 1626 Dutch Governor Peter Minuit Buys Manhattan for $24 in Trinkets
1/19/2025
November 15, 1626 - Pilgrims Buy Out London Investors
1/19/2025
March 19, 1628 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded
1/19/2025
June 7, 1628 - Charles I grants Royal Assent to The Petition of Right
1/19/2025
June 9, 1628 - First deportation from British North American Colonies
1/19/2025
September 06, 1628 - Puritans land at Salem, Massachusettes
1/19/2025
August 26, 1629 - Cambridge Agreement Mass Bay Co Stockholders Agree To Emigrate
1/19/2025
January 13, 1630 - Warwick Patent to Plymouth Colony Issued
1/19/2025
April 8, 1630 - First Four Ships of the "Winthrop Fleet" Depart From Yarmouth, England
1/19/2025
May 29, 1630 - Governor John Winthrop Begins " History of New England "
1/19/2025
May 30, 1630 - Dorchester Massachusetts Established
1/19/2025
June 25, 1630 - Table Fork Introduced To American Dining By John Winthrop
1/19/2025
July 12, 1630 - Dutch Buy Gull Island From Natives, Later Renamed Ellis Island
1/19/2025
September 16, 1630 - Shawmut changes name to Boston
1/19/2025
September 30, 1630 - First execution in British North America
1/19/2025
October 19, 1630 - In Boston The First General Court Is Held
1/19/2025
December 28, 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Chooses New Site for Capital
1/19/2025
February 5, 1631 - Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams Arrives In Boston
1/19/2025
May 18, 1631-Massachusetts Bay Colony Grants Freemen Voting Rights
1/19/2025
August 17, 1631 - Kent Island, Maryland Settled
1/19/2025