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Events relating to north america
Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia
North America's first university is founded at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and soon receives a large bequest from John Harvard
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
Richard Fairbanks, given responsibility for delivering mail in Massachusetts, is allowed to charge a penny per letter
The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms
The Powhatan leader Opechancanough launches another surprise attack on the Virgiinia settlements, killing about 500 colonists
The aged Powhatan leader Opechancanough is captured by the English and executed, ending the last significant Indian threat to Virginia
Peter Stuyvesant begins a 17-year spell as director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America
Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes
The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Louis XIV grants New France the status of a royal province and greatly increases the flow of colonists to north America
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
In the treaty of Breda, England keeps New Amsterdam and New Netherland, and Holland keeps the English-held territory of Surinam
The Jesuits establish a mission at Sault Sainte Marie which becomes the starting point for French exploration south of the Great Lakes
Robert de La Salle makes his first exploration of the Ohio valley, providing the basis for France's later claim to the area
Samuel Sewall begins a diary of daily life in Boston, Massachusetts, that will span a period of more than fifty years
A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War
The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish, killing 21 missionaries and some 400 colonists
Charles II grants William Penn the charter for the region that becomes Pennsylvania, in settlement of a debt to Penn's father
Robert de la Salle travels down the Mississippi to its mouth and claims the entire region for France, naming it Louisiana
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
