APPENDIX

I.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

Columbus discovers San Salvador, Cuba, etc...
Discovery of North America by John Cabot..
Vasco da Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope..

A. D.

1492

1497

1497

Columbus discovers the mainland of South America.

1498

Gaspar Cortereal visits the Newfoundland coast
Second voyage of Cortereal..

1500

1501

Florida discovered and named by Ponce de Leon.
Invasion of Mexico by Cortez.....

1513

1519

Verrazano sails directly west to America....

1524

Pizarro sails from Panama for the conquest of Peru.

1524

A. D.

Enlarged charter of Virginia

Hudson discovers Manhattan and the Hudson River....
Block explores the Connecticut River....

Dutch West India Company formed...
Settlement of Plymouth by the Pilgrims...
The Council for New England incorporated..
Settlement of New Netherland begins..
Massacre in Virginia by the Indians..
Virginia charter annulled.....

John Endicott arrives at Salem....
Grant of New Hampshire to John Mason.
Settlement of Winthrop and his company.

1609

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The Maryland charter issued to Cecilius Calvert
Settlement of Maryland.....

1632

1634

Planting of Exeter (N. H.) by Wheelwright and others.

1638

The Restoration: Charles II., King of England..

1660

The East Jersey Proprietors surrender their patent.
Landing of William of Orange in England.........

1688

1688

Revolution in Massachusetts; Leisler in power in New York;
Coode's successful rising in Maryland.

1689

King William's War.

.1689-97

Execution of Leisler in New York; Provincial charter of Massachusetts; the annexing of Plymouth to Massachusetts; the New York Bill of Rights....

The witchcraft delusion in Massachusetts..

Maryland a royal colony...

1691

1692

1692

First class graduates at William and Mary College........
Penn grants a new charter; Yale College chartered; West
Jersey Proprietors surrender their rights of government. 1701

1700

Union of the Jerseys...

1702

Queen Anne's war; "the War of the Spanish Succession ".1702-12 Separate Assemblies in Pennsylvania and Delaware; war in

South Carolina with Apalatchees.....

War in North Carolina with the Tuscaroras..
Treaty of Utrecht; Acadia given to the English.
Death of Queen Anne; accession of George I.
War in South Carolina with the Yemassees.

1703

1711

1713

1714

1715

Washington attacks Jumonville: surrenders Fort Necessity. 1754 Braddock's defeat...

1755

Declaration of war by England and France...

1756