Timeline of pre–United States history

This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from before the lead up to the American Revolution (c.1760).

Antiquity

1400–1499

Christopher Columbus landing in the New World.

1500–1599

1600–1699

1600s

1610s

1620s

The Mayflower in Plymouth.

1630s

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the founder of Maryland

1640s

1650s

1660s

New Amsterdam is captured by the English

1670s

1680s

William Penn signing a treaty with the Native Americans of Pennsylvania
A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials

1690s


Rev. George Whitefield, is often credited for beginning and popularizing a new religious movement known as The Great Awakening all over Colonial America

1700–1759

See Timeline of the American Revolution for events starting from 1760.

1700s

1710s

1720s

1730s

1740s

1750s

See also

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