PERIOD VI.--AGE OF TYRANNY.
A.D. 1643 TO A.D. 1680.
1644. SECOND INDIAN MASSACRE in Virginia; 800 whites killed,--April 18.
1645. CLAIBORNE'S REBELLION in Maryland; Gov. Calvert fled to Virginia.
1649. CHARLES I., King of Great Britain, beheaded,--Jan. 30.
1650. FIRST SETTLEMENT in North Carolina, on the Chowan River, near Edenton.
1653. OLIVER CROMWELL appointed Lord Protector of Great Britain,--Dec. 16.
1655. RELIGIOUS WAR in Maryland between Protestants and Catholics; New Sweden conquered by the Dutch.
1656. QUAKERS came to Massachusetts; cruel treatment by Puritans.
1660. MONARCHY restored in Great Britain; Charles II. king,--May 29.
NAVIGATION ACTS passed restricting colonial trade.