Timeline of United States pre-history (1600–1699)

This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1600 to 1699.

1600s

*1603 - Queen Elizabeth I dies, is succeeded by James VI of Scotland as James I.
*1607 - Jamestown Settlement is founded by English gold seekers

1610s

*1614 - the Dutch claim New Netherland.

1620s

*1620 - Mayflower Compact signed
*1624 - Foundation of New York City as "New Amsterdam"

1630s

*1630 - Winthrop Fleet travels to Massachusetts Bay Colony
*1630 - Rensselaerwyck colony founded
*1634 - Province of Maryland founded
*1634 - Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
*1635 - Connecticut Colony founded
*1636 - Rhode Island Colony founded by Roger Williams
*1636 - Harvard College founded
*1637 - New Haven Colony founded
*1637 - Pequot War in New England
*1638 - Delaware Colony founded
*1638 - New Sweden established
*1639 - Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony signed
*1639 - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted

1640s

*1640 - French and Iroquois Wars ("Beaver Wars") escalate to full warfare
*1643 - New England Confederation created
*1643-1645 - Kieft's War in New Netherland
*1644-1646 - Second Anglo–Powhatan War
*1649 - Maryland Toleration Act
*1649 - Execution of King Charles I and establishment of Commonwealth in England.

1650s

*1655-1660 - Peach Tree War
*1659-1663 - Esopus Wars

1660s

*1660 - British republic collapses, Charles II becomes King
*1662 - Halfway Covenant adopted
*1663 - King Charles II grants charter for a new colony, Province of Carolina
*1664 - New Amsterdam captured by the British at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
*1664 - New Netherland ceded to Great Britain under Treaty of Breda and Treaty of Westminster (1664)
*1669-1670 - John Lederer of Virginia explores the Appalachian Mountains

1670s

*1670 - Charles Town (Charleston) founded in present-day South Carolina
*1671 - The Batts-Fallam expedition sponsored by Abraham Wood reaches the New River (West Virginia)
*1672 - Blue Laws enacted in Connecticut
*1672-1673 - Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette explore the Illinois Country
*1675 - King Philip's War (1675-76) in New England
*1676 - Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
*1677 - Province of Maine absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony
*1679 - War between the Westo and colonial South Carolina results in the destruction of the Westo.

1680s

*1680 - Pueblo Revolt in Spanish New Mexico
*1682 - Province of Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
*1682 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle travels down the Mississippi River to its mouth
*1683 - King Charles II dies and James II succeeds to throne, reducing colonial autonomy
*1686 - Dominion of New England decreed
*1687 - Yamasee Indians from Spanish Florida move to South Carolina, becoming an important ally of the British
*1688 - Glorious Revolution deposes James II and replaces him with William and Mary
*1689 - Dominion of New England ceases to exist as Governor is deposed.
*1689 - King William's War (1689-1697), part of the wider War of the Grand Alliance, begins

1690s

*1690 - Schenectady Massacre
*1692 - Salem witchcraft trials in Salem Colony in Salem, Massachusetts
*1697 - The War of the Grand Alliance ends with the Treaty of Ryswick
*1698 - Pensacola, Florida established by the Spanish
*1699 - Biloxi, Mississippi by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

timeline
before=Pre 1600
title=Timeline of United States history
years=1600–1699
after=1700-1759