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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.
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.
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1670-1679. May 2, 1670 - Hudson's Bay Company founded as English firm to combat New France in Canadian fur trade. Company would eventually flourish as dominant commercial enterprise from the colonies of the East Coast of America to the Pacific Northwest territories of Washington and Oregon, as well as British Columbia. More.
- 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.
1626 The Dutch Purchase Manhattan Dutch colonists led by Peter Minuit purchase Manhattan Island from the chiefs of the Wappinger Confederacy and establish the colony of New Amsterdam.
1626 AD Battle of Dessau -One of the major battes of the Thirty Years War took place at the Battle of Dessau, in present day Germany. Catholic forces led by Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius Von Waldstien defeated the Count Mansfield and the Protestant forces. Mansfield retreated to Hungary.
Oct 21, 2023 · 1626: Peter Minuit buys Manhattan island for the Dutch from Manahata Indians for goods worth $24. The island is renamed New Amsterdam. 1630: Boston is founded by Massachusetts colonists led by John Winthrop. 1634: Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony, with religious freedom for all granted in 1649.
