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1607 - First permanent English settlement in North America.

1620 - The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.

1630 - Founded by Puritans seeking religious freedom.

1636 - Established by Roger Williams for religious freedom and separation of church and state.

1664 - Formerly the Dutch colony of New Netherland, seized by the English.

1681 - Granted to William Penn by Charles II to repay a debt, established as a place for religious freedom.

1692 - A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

1732 - The last of the Thirteen Colonies, created as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.

1754-1763 - A conflict between French and British forces in North America.

1763 - Issued by King George III, forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

1764 - British legislation that imposed new tariffs on sugar and other goods, effectively raising prices.

1765 - Imposed a direct tax on the colonies, requiring many printed materials in colonies be produced on stamped paper.

1770 - A confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists which left five colonists dead.

1773 - Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.

1774 - A series of punitive measures passed by the British Parliament in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.

1774 - Assembly of colonial delegates who met to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

1775 - The battles that marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

1776 - Document asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain.

1777 - Turning point battle of the Revolutionary War leading to the decisive victory of American forces.

1783 - Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence.

1786-1787 - Uprising of Massachusetts farmers protesting high taxes and economic injustices.

1787 - Meeting in Philadelphia where the U.S. Constitution was drafted.

1787 - Proposed a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.

1787 - Proposed a single-house Congress in which each state had an equal vote, as under the Articles.

1787 - A compromise where a portion of the slave population was counted for legislative representation.

1787-1788 - A series of essays written in support of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

1791 - The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing personal freedoms and rights.

1794 - An uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest against a whiskey tax.