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Events relating to the british empire
John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers
John Winthrop selects the site of Boston for the first Massachusetts settlement
John Winthrop, arriving in Massachusetts, begins the journal that is eventually published as The History Of New England
Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics
Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance
War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut
The British East India Company completes the construction of Fort St George in Madras
Parliament in England passes the first of several Navigation Acts designed to reserve international trade for English ships
The British, settling in Jamaica, soon turn the island into the major slave market of the West Indies
The British establish Fort James on an island in the Gambia river
Peter Stuyvesant accepts the reality of the military situation and yields New Amsterdam to the British without a shot being fired
New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime
England's East India Company is granted a lease on Bombay by Charles II, who has received it from his Portuguese bride
A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War
Charles II grants William Penn the charter for the region that becomes Pennsylvania, in settlement of a debt to Penn's father
William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania
William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes
Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony
John Strong, landing on some remote Atlantic islands, names them after Viscount Falkland, treasurer of the British navy
Fort St William is built by the East India Company in the Ganges delta, and subsequently develops into Calcutta
Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen
Georgia is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give a new start in life to debtors
Robert Clive prevails over the French after holding out during the seven-week siege of Arcot in southern India
George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war
