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- Between 1626 and 1650, the new American colonies chafed at being so close to political rivals, and squabbled with one another over borders, religious freedom, and self-government. The key events during this time include the ongoing wars with Indigenous residents and disputes with the government of Charles I of England.
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Nov 24, 2020 · Updated on November 24, 2020. Between 1626 and 1650, the new American colonies chafed at being so close to political rivals, and squabbled with one another over borders, religious freedom, and self-government. The key events during this time include the ongoing wars with Indigenous residents and disputes with the government of Charles I of England.
- October: England passes the Navigation Act that forbids goods to be imported from the colonies to England in non-English ships or from locations other than where they were produced.
- April 4: New Amsterdam is given permission to form its own city government. May 18: Rhode Island passes the first law in America which prohibits enslavement, but is never enforced.
- The New England Confederation—a union of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies formed in 1643—plans to help England in the ongoing Anglo-Dutch Wars.
- The first Jewish immigrants arrive from Brazil and settle in New Amsterdam. October: The new governor of Maryland, William Fuller (1625–1695), nullifies the 1649 Toleration Act which gave Catholics the right to practice their religion.
Start of the Thirty Years' War - Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France invade Germany in later phases of war. Johannes Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. ( Slavery is made legal in 1650.)
1650 - Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and recognized in the American colonies. June 9, 1650 - The Harvard Board becomes the first legalized corporation in the American colonies, fourteen years after the estabishment of Harvard College.
Apr 25 Battle of Dessau Bridge: Albrecht von Wallenstein at head of Holy Roman Empire forces defeats Danish attempt led by Ernst von Mansfeld's to cross Elbe River (Thirty Years' War) General and Nobleman Albrecht von Wallenstein. May 4 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands.
Dec 4, 2020 · English colonists led by captain and adventurer Samuel Argall (1572–1626) in Virginia destroy the French settlements at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. Adriaen Block's ship catches fire and is destroyed at the mouth of the Hudson River, and the first ship on the Americas is built to replace it.
1626. The Dutch West India Company builds a fort on Manhattan Island and calls the settlement New Amsterdam. The first slaves are brought to New Netherland. The village of Salem, Massachusetts, is settled. 1629. The Massachusetts Bay Company forms in England with the idea of establishing a colony for religious dissenters called Puritans.
