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| 1609 |
| | Henry Hudson reaches the inlet of New York Bay and explores the river now known by his name | |
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| 1613 |
| | The American Indian princess Pocahontas is taken hostage by Jamestown colonists in the first Anglo-Powhatan war | |
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| 1614 |
| | Pocahontas is baptized a Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of the Jamestown colonists | |
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| 1616 |
| | Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown | |
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| 1616 |
| | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1620 September 16 |
| | The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world | |
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| 1620 November 11 |
| | Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony | |
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| 1620 December 26 |
| | The Pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement, and give it the name of Plymouth, their port of departure in England | |
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| 1620 |
| | William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| 1621 autumn |
| | The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians | |
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