1626. The Dutch purchase Manhattan Island from the Indians.
1628. Settlement of Salem by the Massachusetts Bay Company.
1629. The English take Quebec.
1630. Foundation of Boston.
1631. Settlement of Maryland by Clayborne.
1632. Canada is restored to France by England. Lord Baltimore receives a charter for a colony in Maryland.
1634. Settlement of St. Mary’s, Maryland, by Calvert.
1634–36. Settlement of Connecticut by the English. Settlement of Rhode Island by Roger Williams.
1636. Foundation of Harvard College.
1637. Conquest of the Pequots by the New England colonists.