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| 1636 |
| | | Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance | |
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| 1637 |
| | | War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1664 |
| | | Peter Stuyvesant accepts the reality of the military situation and yields New Amsterdam to the British without a shot being fired | |
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| 1666 |
| | | New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime | |
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| 1675 |
| | | A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War | |
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| 1681 |
| | | Charles II grants William Penn the charter for the region that becomes Pennsylvania, in settlement of a debt to Penn's father | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes | |
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| 1683 |
| | | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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