SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

HISTORY

The Society of Colonial Wars

in The British Isles

BRITISH COLONIAL HISTORY OF USA

If anyone knows any relevant history that they feel is missing from the period 1607 to 1775, please let us know. Family history of an ancestor who lived during this period can be particularly interesting.

The "Godspeed" sailed in 1607 from England Jamestown Settled 1607	1497 Britain and France start to explore North America. 1603 James I Crowned 1606 British Colony of Virginia founded. 1607 Settlement of Jamestown. 1610 Famine in Virginia. Only 60 of the 214 settlers survived disease and starvation. 1612 Tobacco cultivation commenced. This brings a bit of prosperity. 1619 The first representative government, the House of Burgesses, convene in Jamestown. 1620 New England Council Incorporated; Mayflower arrives in December at Cape Cod Bay with Pilgrim Fathers. Boston founded.
Mayflower II near Plymouth Rock 1620	1625 Charles I Crowned 1625 Dutch Fur Traders found colony of New Amsterdam 1636 Province, Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams and followers who fled the intolerance of the Massachusettes' Puritans. Anne Hutchinson led another banished group in 1638 to found a city subsequently called Newport. Rhode Island became established as a State in 1644. 1643-1645 Dutch War with Indians. 1649-1660 Cromwell takes power by executing Charles I. Charles II crowned on Cromwell's death in 1660. 1654 Connecticut physician, Thomas Pell, purchased 9,000 acres on Long Island Sound from Siwanoy Indians. In 1666 he received the King's Charter to create the Manor of Pelham, now part of the Bronx. He became the 1st Lord of Pelham, NY. ( In Hertfordshire, England, his ancestor had been Lord of Pelham in 1294 ). 1662 Connecticut granted Charter. Subsequently James II in 1685 tried to revoke the Colony's liberties but the charter was hidden by Captain Joseph Wadsworth in an Oak Tree to prevent its return to the Crown. Subsequently William and Mary came to the throne and the Charter's liberties renewed. Later this Charter would serve as a model for the USA constitution.
	1664 New Amsterdam fell into Britain's hands and re-named New York. 1681 King Charles II gives English Quaker William Penn a charter to own land west of Delaware River. This is named "Pennsylvania". 1682 Province of Pennsylvania founded. Philidelphia founded. 1683 New York City Charter 1685 James II crowned
Horse and Carriage in Philadelphia Union Flag of England and Scotland Virginia Capital building at Williamsburg. The Kings Representatives met in the left part of building the elected representatives of the people met in the right part 'The House of Burgess'. On the first floor the two sides met to resolve their differences. This is similar to 'The House of Lords' and the 'House of Commons'	1686 First Sheriff of Albany after being granted a Charter. 1689 William III crowned conjointly with Mary II 1689-1691 Merchant Jacob Leisler leads tax revolt and takes over New York for 2 years before being sentenced to death for treason. 1699 Williamsburg becomes the Capital of Virginia 1701 Charter of Privilege granted to Pennsylvania giving the colonial assembly more power than any legislative body in Britain. 1702 Queen Anne crowned 1714 George I crowned 1727 George II crowned 1732 Province of Georgia founded as a Utopia place where slavery was not allowed. 17^th June 1745, the capture of the French Fortress town of Louisbourg, by Lord Amherst's Colonial Forces led by William Pepperrell, assisted by the Royal Navy. 1759 Capture of Lake Champlain by Lord Amherst on the capture of Fort Carillon (re-named Fort Ticonderoga). 1751-1759 War between Britain and France. French and Indian War begins in 1754 and ends in 1763. France and Britain clash over the Ohio River Valley. 1760 Montreal falls to the British when Ammerican and British Troops capture it in July. 1760 George III crowned 1763 War ends with Britain gaining control of North America.and Florida in the Peace of Paris agreement 1763-1764 Ottawa Indian, Pontiac led attacks on British Forts in Western Pennsylvania and Western New York. 1765 Stamp Act causes unrest. 1766 Act repealed
	1767 Townshend Act imposes duties and after protests is repealed. 1770 March 5th "Boston Massacre" of 5 Colonists by British Sentries at the Custom House.( Trial documents show it was an unruly mob of two hundred or so assaulting and provoking the single sentry until he called for reinforcements. One soldier was actually bludgeoned to the ground. The soldiers were in fear for their lives, and acted in self defense.) 1773 Boston Tea Party protest against tax of 3 pence per pound of tea resulted in about 300 men disguised as Mowhawk Indians boarding HMS Dartmour and throwing overboard 300 chests of tea. In retaliation during 1774 four British Regiments closed down the port. 1774 Congress of State Deputies met at Philadelphia
Beaver II in Boston	1775 April 19th, Battle of Lexington where 700 British Troops who had marched out to confiscate and destroy an illegal cache of arms at Concord, were engaged by Minute Men before going on and being outnumbered in Concord. The British confronted the militiamen, lost 3 soldiers and had to beat a hasty, undignified retreat to Boston. Some 20,000 Minute Men followed penning the British forces in at Boston.
	Battle of Bumker Hill followed on 17th June. Although about one-third of Colonists remained loyal to the crown and another third were neutral, further British attacks on Falmouth (now called Portland) in October 1775 and on Norfolk, Virginia in January 1776 fanned the fury. In March 1776 the British withdrew from Boston for good.
Longfellow's house in Cambridge near Boston was the former home of George Washington during the Battle of Bunker Hill Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia	1776 May, representatives of all 13 colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss Thomas Jefferson of Virginia's document of grievences and for Independence. 1776 4th July Declaration of Independence. After 5 years of fighting British surrender in 1781. 1783 Treaty of Paris signed and US wins Independence and British evacuate New York.

Presidents USA	British Monarchs
1789-1796 President Washington 1796-1800 John Adams 1800-1808 Thomas Jefferson 1808-1816 James Madison 1816-1824 James Monroe 1824-1828 John Quincy Adams	1760 -1820 George III 1820-1830 George IV
.1828-1836 Andrew Jackson	1830-1837 William IV
1836-1840 Martin Van Buren 1840-1844 William H Harrison 1844-1848 James Knox Polk 1848-1852 Zachary Taylor 1852-1856 Franklin Pierce 1856-1860 Abraham Lincoln 1868- 1876 Ulysses S Grant 1876-1880 Rutherford B Hayes 1880-1884 James A Garfield 1884-1888 Grover Cleveland 1888-1892 Benjamin Harrison 1892-1896 Grover Cleveland 1896-1900 William McKinley	1837-1901 Queen Victoria
.1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1910 Edward VII
1909-1913 William Howard Taft 1913-1921 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 1921-1923 Warren Gamaliel Harding 1923-1929 John Calvin Coolridge 1929-1933 Herbert Clark Hoover	1910-1936 George V
1933-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1936 Edward VIII
1945-1953 Harry S Truman	1936-1952 George VI
1953-1961 Dwight David Eisenhower 1961-1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1963-1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1969-1974 Richard Milhous Nixon 1974-1977 Gerald Rudolph Ford 1977-1981 James Earl Carter 1981-1988 Ronald Wilson Reagan 1988-1996 George Herbert Walker Bush 1996-2001 Bill Clinton 2001-2005 George W Bush	1952-date Queen Elizabeth II
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