{"id":8177,"date":"2014-09-09T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2023-05-28T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:30:02","slug":"early-american-colonial-history-timeline-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/early-american-colonial-history-timeline-infographic.html","title":{"rendered":"Early American Colonial History Timeline Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning in the 16th<\/sup> century, settlers from many European countries came to North America, including: Finland, Germany, Holland (the Netherlands), Ireland, Scotland, Sweden\u2014and especially England, France and Spain. These settlers arrived seeking a better life, profit, and religious freedom. England eventually exerted control over the new land, and established the 13 colonies that became the United States.<\/p>\n

If you are exploring your ancestry all the way back to the Colonial period in U.S. history, this Infographic will help\u2014providing a timeline and facts to help you better understand the times your ancestors lived in.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a timeline of key historical events in Colonial America. (Note: this article continues after the Infographic.)<\/p>\n

Click here for the larger version of the Settling America Infographic.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Settling America: Explore Your Ancestry in Colonial America<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does your family history in America begin before the United States became a country?<\/p>\n

After Christopher Columbus\u2019 voyages, many European countries came to the New World\u2014but eventually Great Britain became the dominant power in North America.<\/p>\n

This timeline shows some of the key events in the settling of America, as settlements and colonies became the 13 British colonies\u2014leading to the original 13 United States.<\/p>\n

Colonial America Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n

1492: Christopher Columbus first arrives in the New World
\n1534: France\u2019s New France Colony (Canada, Louisiana Territory)
\n1565: Spain\u2019s St. Augustine\u2014the oldest continuously-occupied city in the U.S. (Florida)
\n1585: England\u2019s Roanoke Colony, the \u201cLost Colony\u201d (North Carolina)
\n1607: England\u2019s Jamestown Settlement (Virginia)
\n1614: Holland\u2019s New Netherland Colony (Mid-Atlantic States)
\n1620: England\u2019s Plymouth Colony founded by the Pilgrims (Massachusetts)
\n1625: Holland\u2019s New Amsterdam settlement established on the southern tip of Manhattan Island
\n1630: Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony establish Boston and 10 other settlements
\n1636: England\u2019s Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
\n1638: Sweden\u2019s New Sweden Colony (Mid-Atlantic States)
\n1656: First Quakers arrive in New England
\n1664: England captures the New Amsterdam settlement on Manhattan Island
\n1665: England renames New Amsterdam \u201cNew York City\u201d
\n1667: England takes over Holland\u2019s New Netherland Colony and renames it \u201cNew York\u201d
\n1681: England\u2019s Pennsylvania Colony
\n1687: Protest by New England settlers and merchants against \u201carbitrary\u201d taxes
\n1690: Spain colonizes Texas
\n1690: Publick Occurrences<\/em>, the first newspaper in America, is published in Boston
\n1754: Beginning of the French and Indian War, France and its Indian allies versus Great Britain, its Colonial militia, and Indian allies
\n1763: Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War\u2014France loses most of its North American territory to Great Britain, with its Louisiana Territory going to Spain<\/p>\n

Colonial Newspapers Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long-established American families have family trees that stretch back to the Colonial Era in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup> centuries. Finding vital statistics and other genealogical information about these early Colonial ancestors from that time period can be difficult, as some vital records simply were not officially kept before and during the 1700s, or have been destroyed through war, accident or the passage of time.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, GenealogyBank offers a rich genealogy resource for family historians tracing their family trees back to Early American times: an online collection of 27 Colonial newspapers<\/a>, providing obituaries, birth notices, marriage announcements, and personal stories to get to know your pioneering ancestors and the times they lived in better.<\/p>\n

Download our printable PDF list of Colonial newspapers for easy access to our historical archives right from your local desktop to begin researching your genealogy back to the Colonial period. The list shows the individual Colonial newspaper titles we house in our historical archives, ranging from the first newspaper ever published in America up to publications from the late 1800s. After you\u2019ve downloaded the PDF, click the newspaper titles to be taken directly to the search landing page for that publication. Just click on the graphic below to start your download.<\/p>\n

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