ABSTRACT
France. c.1600 Sheep are brought to the Americas by the Spanish. 1603 James I unites Scotland and England, creating Great
Britain. 1603-1615 Samuel de Champlain establishes the fur trade in New
France. 1607 John Smith establishes the first English settlement,
Jamestown, Virginia. 1608 Champlain establishes the first permanent French
settlement, Quebec City. 1608 The Spanish establish Santa Fe, New Mexico. Henry Hudson trades alcohol for Indian goods. 1611 Jesuit missionaries arrive in New France. 1613 The French introduce the policy of scalp bounties to
Indians. 1619 The First Anglican missionaries arrive in Virginia. 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts. 1619-1633 The Spanish establish missions among Pueblo tribes. 1621 The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians share
“Thanksgiving.” 1624 The Dutch claim New Amsterdam (Manhattan) and Fort
Orange (Albany), New York. 1641 The Dutch offer scalp bounties on Indians. 1653-1658 Oliver Cromwell’s Rebellion against the Church of England
occurs. 1659 The Navajo carry out their first raid on horseback. 1661 The Spanish raid Pueblo tribes, destroying Kivas and
Kachinas. 1670 The Hudson Bay Company is chartered by Britain.
