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This section of the [[timeline of United States history]] concerns events from before the lead up to the [[American Revolution]] ({{circa|1760}}).
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==Antiquity==
{{See also|Geological history of North America|History of Native Americans in the United States}}
*{{circa}} 27,000–12,000 years ago – Humans cross the [[Beringia]] land bridge into North and then South America. Dates of earliest migration to the Americas is highly debated. 
*c. 15,500 year old arrowhead; oldest verified arrowhead in the Americas, found in Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a24231310/oldest-weapon-north-america-spearhead/|title = The Oldest Weapon Discovered in North America is a 15,000-Year-Old Spearhead|date = 31 October 2018}}</ref>
*c. 11,500 [[BCE]] – Start of [[Clovis Culture]] in North America.
*c. 10,200 BCE – [[Cooper Bison Kill Site|Cooper Bison skull]] is painted with a red zigzag in present-day [[Oklahoma]], becoming the oldest known painted object in North America.
*c. 9500 BC – [[Cordilleran Ice Sheet|Cordilleran]] and [[Laurentide Ice Sheet]]s retreat enough to open a habitable ice-free corridor through the northern half of the continent (North America) along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains.
*c. 1000 BCE-1000 [[Common Era|CE]] – [[Woodland Period]] of [[Pre-Columbian]] Native Americans in Eastern America.
*200 CE – [[Pyramid of the Sun]] built near modern-day [[Mexico City]].
*250–900 CE – Classic Period of the [[Maya Civilization]]
*600 CE – Emergence of [[Mississippian culture]] in North America.

==988–1490==
* 986 – [[Norsemen]] settle [[Greenland]] and [[Bjarni Herjólfsson]] sights coast of North American mainland, but doesn't land{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} (see also [[Norse colonization of the Americas]]).
* {{circa|1000}}: Norse settle briefly in [[L'Anse aux Meadows]] in Newfoundland.<ref>Birgitta Wallace,  "The Norse in Newfoundland: L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland." ''Newfoundland and Labrador Studies'' 19.1 (2005). [http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/viewArticle/140/236 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519004819/http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/viewArticle/140/236 |date=2014-05-19 }}</ref>
* c. 1100 – [[Oraibi]] was founded the year of 1128 CE, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements within the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.nau.edu/speccoll/exhibits/indigenous_voices/hopi/places.html|title=Hopi Places|publisher=Cline Library, Northern Arizona University}}</ref><ref>Casey, Robert L. ''Journey to the High Southwest.'' Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2007: 382. {{ISBN|978-0-7627-4064-2}}.</ref>
*c. 1100-1200 – [[Cahokia]] near modern-day St. Louis reaches its apex population
*c. 1190 – Construction begins on the [[Cliff Palace]] by [[Ancestral Puebloans]] in modern-day [[Colorado]]
*c. 1325 – [[Tenochtitlan]] founded as part of the [[Aztec Empire]]
*c. 1400 – Beginning of the European [[Age of Discovery]]. 
* {{circa|1450}}: Norse colony in Greenland dies out{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}.
* 1473 – [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] perhaps reaches Newfoundland; writes about the "Land of Cod fish" in his journal.
* 1479 - [[Treaty of Toledo]] ends the War of the Castilian Succession.  Portugal won the exclusive right of navigating, conquering and trading in all the Atlantic Ocean south of the Canary Islands, forcing Spain to sail west to India.
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* before 1492 – Population estimates in the New World before European contact may be as high as 112 million people.

==1492–1499==
{{see|English overseas possessions}}
[[File:Landing of Columbus (2) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|''Landing of Columbus'', 1847 by [[John Vanderlyn]], depicts [[Christopher Columbus]] landing in the New World.]]
*1492 – [[Christopher Columbus]], financed by Spain, lands on the island of [[San Salvador Island|San Salvador]] in the [[Bahamas]], discovering the [[New World]] for Europe.
*1496 – [[Santo Domingo]], the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled.
*1497 – [[John Cabot]] lands in [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], beginning the British colonial presence in Continental North America.

==1500–1599==
*{{circa}} 1500 – Disappearance of [[Mississippian culture]].
*1503 – [[Jaragua massacre]]
*1504 – [[Juan Ponce de León|Higüey massacre]]
*1507 – A new world map by [[Martin Waldseemuller]] names the continents of the New World "America" in honor of [[Amerigo Vespucci]].
*1508 – First European colony and oldest known European settlement in a United States territory is founded at [[Caparra, Puerto Rico]], by [[Juan Ponce de León]].
*1512 – [[Laws of Burgos]]
*1513 – [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]] crosses isthmus of [[Panama]], sees the Pacific Ocean.
*1517 – [[Protestant reformation]]
*1520s – Spanish begin the conquest of [[Aztec civilization]].
*1521 – [[Hernán Cortés]] conquered the Aztec empire.
*1524 – [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]], working for France, explores coastline from present-day [[Maine]] to [[North Carolina]].
*1526 – [[Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón]] briefly establishes the failed settlement of [[San Miguel de Gualdape]] in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first [[slave rebellion]].
*1534 – [[Jacques Cartier]] plants a cross on the [[Gaspé Peninsula]] (modern [[Quebec]]) and claimed the land for France.
*1539 – [[Hernando de Soto]] had 200 executed, in what was to be called [[Napituca Massacre]].
*1540 – [[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado]] is infamous for the [[Tiguex Massacres]], after seizing the houses, food and clothing of the [[Tiwa Puebloans]] and raped their people, his army found themselves in conflict with the Rio Grande natives, which led to the brutal [[Tiguex War]].
*1540 – [[Pedro de Tovar]] comes in contact with the [[Hopi]] people at [[Oraibi]] as part of the expedition led by [[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado]]
*1541 – [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] discovers the [[Mississippi River]], strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America.
*1562 – [[Jean Ribault]], leaves France with 150 colonists for the New World, establishing Charlesfort on [[Parris Island]] in South Carolina, which was abandoned several years later.
*1564 – French [[Fort Caroline]] established on the banks of the [[St. Johns River]], Florida; Colonized by [[huguenots]], sacked by [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] in 1565.
*1565 – Admiral [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] founds [[St. Augustine, Florida]], the earliest successful Spanish/European settlement in the future continental United States.
*1570s – [[Haudenosaunee|Iroquois Confederacy]] founded.
*1579 – [[Francis Drake]] claims the lands of California for [[England]] and Queen Elizabeth I, landing in [[Drake's Bay]] and naming it [[New Albion]].
*1585 – Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, though he never set foot in it.
*1587 – [[Virginia Dare]] was born on Roanoke, making her the first English child known to be born in the New World. The first Asians to set foot on what would be the United States occurred when Filipino sailors arrived in Spanish ships at [[Morro Bay, California]]; see [[Landing of the first Filipinos]].
*1588 – First battle of the English against the [[Spanish Armada]] begins, leading to their defeat and the lessening of Spain's influence in the New World and the rise of English influence in the Americas.
*1590 – [[Roanoke Colony]] found deserted.
*1599 – [[Juan de Oñate]] and [[Vicente de Zaldívar]] committed the [[Ácoma Massacre]] killing approximately 500 warriors and 300 civilians of the [[Acoma Pueblo]]s. And committed the [[Sandia Mountains massacre]], killing 900 [[Tompiro Indians]]. [[Philip III of Spain|King Philip III]] later punished Oñate for his cruelty.

==1600–1699==

===1600s===
*1602 – [[Bartholomew Gosnold]] is the first Englishman to land on the New England coast, exploring and naming [[Cape Cod]] and [[Martha's Vineyard]].
*1605 –  First capital of [[Acadia]] (French) was established as Port-Royal in modern-day [[Nova Scotia]]; it lasted until 1613. [[George Weymouth]] explores [[New England]].
*1606 – The joint-stock company [[Virginia Company]] of London is founded and granted a Royal Charter by James I to settle in the [[New World]].
*1607 – Establishment of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. The short lived [[Popham Colony]] founded in Maine by the [[Virginia Company of Plymouth]]. 
*1608 – Founding of Quebec ([[Habitation de Québec]]) by [[Samuel de Champlain]].
*1609 – [[Henry Hudson]] explores the [[Hudson River]] and Delaware Bay for the Dutch.
*1609–10 – The [[Starving Time]] at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]].

===1610s===
*1610 – [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]] established by Spain 
*1612 – The Dutch establish a fur trading center with the Native Americans on [[Manhattan Island]].
*1614 – Dutch claim [[New Netherland]]. [[John Rolfe]] successfully harvests tobacco in [[Jamestown, Virginia]], ensuring the colony's success.
*1615 – [[Fort Nassau (North River)]] founded near [[Albany, New York]].
*1617–19 – [[Smallpox]] kills roughly 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians
*1619 – [[First Africans in Virginia|First enslaved Africans to the North American colonies]] arrived in [[Jamestown, Virginia]] aboard the [[White Lion (privateer)|White Lion]]. The [[House of Burgesses]], the first democratically elected legislative body in [[British North America|English North America]] was formed in Jamestown.
*1619 – [[Squanto]] return to northeast America after living in England.

===1620s===
[[File:Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall.jpg|thumb|right|The ''[[Mayflower]]'' in Plymouth.]]
*1620 – [[Mayflower Compact]] signed. [[Plymouth Colony]] is founded in what would be Massachusetts, by the [[Plymouth Company]].
*1621 – [[Anthony Johnson (colonist)|Anthony Johnson]] is held as an [[Indentured servant]] in the Colony of Virginia.
*1622 – [[Indian massacre of 1622]] in Virginia.
*1624 – King James I revokes the [[Virginia Company]]'s charter, and Virginia becomes a royal colony. Foundation of [[New Amsterdam]] by the [[Dutch West India Company]]; would later be renamed [[New York City|New York]].
*1625 – King James I dies; King Charles I becomes [[King of England]]
*1628 – [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] founded.

===1630s===
[[File:Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, by Gerard Soest (1670).jpg|thumb|[[Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], the founder of Maryland]]

*1630 – [[Winthrop Fleet]] to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]. [[Manor of Rensselaerswyck]] founded. [[Boston]] founded. 
*1632 – [[Province of Maryland]] founded.
*1634 – Theologian [[Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
*1636 – [[Connecticut Colony]] founded by [[Thomas Hooker]]. 
*1636 – [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]] founded by Roger Williams. 
*1636 – [[Harvard College]] founded.
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*1637 – [[New Haven Colony]] founded.
*1638 – The [[Free Grace Controversy]] ended, when [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
*1638 – Roger Williams founded the [[First Baptist Church in America]].
*1638 – [[Pequot War]] ends in [[New England]]. [[New Sweden]] established around the southern [[Delaware River]] by [[Peter Minuit]].
*1639 – [[Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony]] signed. [[Fundamental Orders of Connecticut]] adopted and the Crown formally recognizes the [[Virginia Assembly]].

===1640s===
*1640 – [[French and Iroquois Wars]] escalate to full warfare.
*1640 – Virginia courts sentence [[John Punch (slave)|John Punch]] a black indentured servant to life of servitude for running away from an abusive plantation owner [[Hugh Gwyn]]. 
*1642 – Beginning of the [[English Civil War]]. [[Montreal]] founded.
*1643 – [[New England Confederation]] created.
*1643–1645 – [[Kieft's War]] in [[New Netherland]].
*1644–1646 – [[Third Anglo–Powhatan War]]
*1649 – [[Maryland Toleration Act]]. Execution of [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and the establishment of Commonwealth in England.

===1650s===
*1651 – In the wake of the [[English Civil War]], Virginia acknowledges the authority of the [[Parliament of England]].
*1655 – [[New Sweden]] becomes incorporated into the Dutch colony of [[New Netherland]]
*1655 – [[John Casor]] was declared a slave for life after [[Anthony Johnson (colonist)|Anthony Johnson]], a free black man, sued Robert Parker for stolen services.
*1656 – [[Elizabeth Key Grinstead]] was one of the first black people to sue for freedom for alleged slavery and win.
*1656 – First [[Quakers]] arrive in New England.
*1655 – [[Peach War]]
*1658 – Death of [[Oliver Cromwell]]
*1659–1663 – [[Esopus Wars]]

===1660s===
[[File:The fall of New Amsterdam cph.3g12217.jpg|thumb|right|New Amsterdam is captured by the English]]
*1660 – Commonwealth of England collapses, [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] is [[English Restoration|restored to the throne]].
*1660 – The [[Royal African Company]] is founded.
*1662 – The Virginia Colony passed a law incorporating the principal of [[partus sequitur ventrem]], ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status 
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*1662 – [[Halfway Covenant]] adopted.
*1663 – The [[Rhode Island Royal Charter]] provided recognition to the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation]], and outlined many freedoms including freedom of religion and acknowledged Indian rights to the soil.
*1663 – King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] grants charter for a new colony, (Province of Carolina).
*1663 – [[Gloucester County Conspiracy|Gloucester County, Virginia Revolt]]
*1664 – [[New Amsterdam]] captured by the English at the start of the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]]. [[New Jersey]] and [[New York (state)|New York]] established as Proprietary Colonies of England. 
*1665 – [[The Duke's Laws]] are issued.
*1667 – [[New Netherland]] ceded to England under [[Treaty of Breda (1667)|Treaty of Breda]].
*1667 – Virginia law enacted, declaring that baptism of slaves does not exempt them from bondage.
*1669 – Virginia law enacted, that killing one's own enslaved people was not a felony.
*1669 – The [[Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina]] are drawn up.
*1669–1670 – [[John Lederer]] of Virginia explores the [[Appalachian Mountains]].

===1670s===
*1670 – Charles Town ([[Charleston, South Carolina|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 (Connecticut)|Blue Laws]] enacted in Connecticut.
*1672–73 – [[Louis Jolliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] explore the [[Illinois Country]].
*1674 – [[New Netherland]] permanently relinquished to English with [[Treaty of Westminster (1674)|Treaty of Westminster]].
*1675 – [[King Philip's War]] (1675–76) in New England.
*1676 – [[Bacon's Rebellion]] in Virginia; Bacon writes the "[[Declaration of the People of Virginia]]".
*1677 – Colonists in North Carolina rebel against [[Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper|Thomas Colepeper]], 2nd Baron Colepeper. [[Edmund Andros]], Governor of New York, negotiates the Covenant Chain with the [[Iroquois]]. [[Province of Maine]] absorbed by [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].
*1679 – War between the [[Westo]] and [[Colonial period of South Carolina|colonial South Carolina]] results in the destruction of the Westo. The [[Province of New Hampshire]] is created out of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] by royal decree from [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]].

===1680s===
*1680 - Pueblo Revolution
*1681 – [[William Penn]] receives a royal charter from [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] to establish [[Pennsylvania]].
*1682 – [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] explored the [[Ohio River Valley]] and the [[Mississippi River Valley]], and he claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. [[William Penn]] publishes "[[Frame of Government of Pennsylvania]]" that provides for a precursor of a [[bicameral]] government. [[Philadelphia]] founded.
*1685 – Charles II dies and his brother the Duke of York becomes King James II. Fort St. Louis ([[French colonization of Texas]]) established near Arenosa Creek on [[Matagorda Bay]] by French explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]]; the fort was abandoned in 1688. 
*1686 – [[Arkansas Post]] established by [[Henri de Tonti]] as the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
*1688 - The first recorded formal protest against slavery, the [[1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery]].
*1688–97 – [[King William's War]], the North American theater of the [[Nine Years' War]].
*1688 – The [[Glorious Revolution]] occurs; King James II flees to France and is replaced by [[William and Mary of Orange]].
*1689 – The English Parliament presents the [[English Bill of Rights]] to William and Mary and is later used as one of the models for the [[United States Bill of Rights]]. The [[Boston Revolt]] and [[Leisler's Rebellion]] occurs. [[Toleration Act 1688]] is passed by Parliament which gives limited [[freedom of religion]] to all English subject.

===1690s===
*c. 1690 – Spanish authorities, concerned that France posed a competitive threat, constructed several missions in [[East Texas]]; see [[Spanish Missions in Texas]]. 
*1690 – The first newspaper issue in the English colonies is published in Boston, the [[Public Occurrences]].
*1692 – [[Salem Witch Trials]]
*1693 – [[College of William & Mary]] founded in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]]. Rice culture introduced in the Province of Carolina.
*1694 – [[Mary II]] dies, [[William III of England|William III]] takes sole rule over [[England]].
*1696 – [[Cahokia, Illinois]] established by French missionaries from [[Quebec]] and is one of the earliest permanent settlements in the region.
*1697 – The [[Treaty of Ryswick]] ends [[King William's War]] and restores all colonial possessions to pre-war ownership.
*1698 – The [[Parliament of England]]'s [[Trade with Africa Act 1697]] comes into effect, ending the Royal African Company's monopoly on English trade with Africa, including the [[Atlantic slave trade]]. The act, which was passed in part due to heavy pressure from merchants in England's American colonies, results in the number of Africans transported to the American colonies being increased from 5,000 to 45,000 ''per annum''. 
*1699 – Capital of Virginia moved from Jamestown to [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]]; Jamestown is slowly abandoned. [[The Wool Act]] forbade the export of wool from the American colonies. Free blacks ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia.

==1700–1759==

===1700s===
*1700 – [[José Romo de Vivar]] becomes one of the earliest European (Spanish) settlers in the future state of [[Arizona]]. 
*1701 – [[Yale University|The Collegiate school at Saybrook]] is founded in Connecticut; it will later be renamed as [[Yale University|Yale College]]. [[Delaware Colony]] granted charter, separating it from [[Pennsylvania]].
*1702 – [[William III of England|William III]] dies, is succeeded by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]]. [[Queen Anne's War]] (War of the Spanish Succession) begins. [[East Jersey]] and [[West Jersey]] become crown colonies. [[Mobile, Alabama]] founded. 
*1703 – [[Kaskaskia, Illinois]] established as a small mission station for the French.
*1704 – The first regular newspaper publishes its initial edition in Boston, the [[News-Letter]] and was begun by John Campbell. The [[Province of Carolina]] allows the arming of the enslaved population during time of war.
*1705 – The [[House of Burgesses]] passes the [[Virginia Slave Codes of 1705]].
*1706 – [[Benjamin Franklin]] born in Boston. [[Albuquerque]] founded and named for the viceroy of New Spain, [[Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque]].

===1710s===
*1710 – [[Francis Nicholson]] takes [[Port Royal]].
*1711–15 – [[Province of Carolina|North Carolina]] fights the [[Tuscarora War]] with the [[Tuscarora people]].
*1712 – [[New York Slave Revolt of 1712]].
*1713 – The [[Treaty of Utrecht]] is signed, bringing an end to [[Queen Anne's War]]; England gains [[Nova Scotia]].
*1714 – [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] dies; succeeded by [[George I of Great Britain|George I]]. [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] established by [[Louis Juchereau de St. Denis]], making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the modern state of Louisiana.
*1715 – [[Province of Carolina|South Carolina]] begins the [[Yamasee War]].
*1718 – [[Mission San Antonio de Valero]] (The Alamo) built as the first Spanish mission along the [[San Antonio River]]. [[New Orleans]] founded by the French. [[Blackbeard]] is killed in battle by lieutenant [[Robert Maynard]] in the waters off the Province of North Carolina.

===1720s===
*1723 – The House of Burgesses passes an act to deal with slave rebellions. The French establish [[Fort Orleans]] along the Missouri River near [[Brunswick, Missouri]].
*1725 – [[Father Rale's War]] (1722–25)
*1727 – [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] dies, is succeeded by [[George II of Great Britain|George II]]. British construct [[Fort Oswego]].
*1729 – [[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown. City of [[Baltimore]] founded.

===1730s===
*c. 1730 – For the first time, the majority of the enslaved population in [[Chesapeake, Virginia]] were born in the Americas.
*1732 – The [[Province of Georgia]] is founded by General [[James Oglethorpe]]. Where slavery was prohibited.
*1735 – [[John Peter Zenger]] is found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4.
*1737 – [[Benjamin Lay]] writes All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates. Published by [[Benjamin Franklin]] in Philadelphia.
*1739 – The [[Stono Rebellion]] in the Province of [[South Carolina]] is crushed.
*1739-40 – [[George Whitefield]] begins his travels throughout the colonies. His message of everyday Christians having a personal connection with God resonates and begins the [[First Great Awakening]].

===1740s===
*1740 – The [[Plantation Act 1740]] is passed to encourage immigration to the Thirteen Colonies and regularize the colonial naturalization procedures. [[Battle of Cartagena de Indias]], where the colonists are called "Americans" for the first time. [[James Oglethorpe]] [[Siege of St. Augustine (1740)|fails to take St. Augustine]].  South Carolina enacts the [[Negro Act of 1740]].
*1741 – The [[New York Conspiracy of 1741]] is suppressed.
*1744 – [[King George's War]] (1744–48)
*1745 – New Englanders [[Siege of Louisbourg (1745)|take Louisbourg]].
*1746 – [[Princeton University]] founded, with [[Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister)|Jonathan Dickinson]] as its first president.
*1747 – Founding of the [[Ohio Company]].
*1749 – [[Province of Georgia]] overturns its [[Georgia Experiment|ban on slavery]]. [[Father Le Loutre's War]] (1749–55)

===1750s===
*c. 1750 – Population of the [[Thirteen Colonies]] is roughly 1.5 million.
*1750 – [[Thomas Walker (explorer)|Thomas Walker]] passes through the [[Cumberland Gap]].
*1751 – The ban on slavery was lifted after 19 years in the [[Province of Georgia]].
*1752 – [[Benjamin Kent]] represented slaves in court against their masters in Massachusetts.
*1754 – [[French and Indian War]] begins, which was a theater of the [[Seven Years' War]]; first engagement at the [[Battle of Jumonville Glen]]. [[Albany Congress]], in which a "Union of Colonies" is proposed. [[Columbia University]] founded as King's College by George II Royal Charter.
*1757 – [[Siege of Fort William Henry]].
*1758 – [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]]; [[Battle of Fort Frontenac]]; [[Battle of Fort Duquesne]].  The first black [[Baptist]] church is founded in [[Lunenburg, Virginia]].
*1759 – [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham|Quebec is taken]], British victory assured in French and Indian War.

:''See [[Timeline of the American Revolution]] for events starting from 1760.''

==See also==
* [[Timeline of the colonization of North America]]
* [[Colonial history of the United States]]
* [[Timeline of United States history]]
* [[Timeline of the American Revolution]]

==References==
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