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• 1620: Pilgrims from England arrive in Plymouth.
• 1621: Dutch West India Company chartered, expands up the Hudson and Delaware rivers.
• 1621: James VII of Scotland grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland ( Nova Scotia)
• 1622Events January 1 In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. February 8 King James I of England disbands the English Parliament. March 22 In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 Englis- 1646Events Ongoing events English Civil War ( 1642- 1649) Births April 15 King Christian V of Denmark April 26 King Peter II of Portugal July 1 Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat and lawyer. Deaths 1646.: Powhattan Confederacy Wars, Chesapeake BayThe Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Virginia and Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay's watershed covers 64,000 miles² (165,760 km²) in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New area. Source of phoney PocahontasFor the towns in the United States, see Pocahontas, Arkansas, Pocahontas, Illinois or Pocahontas, Iowa''. Pocahontas (about 1595- 1617) was the childhood nickname of Matoaka daughter of Powhatan. She saved the colony of Jamestown, Virginia from extinction tale by English Capt. John SmithJohn Smith ( 1580- 1631) was an English soldier and sailor, now chiefly remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English colony in North America, and his brief association with the Native American princess Pocahontas. Smith was born in, after Pocahontas's death (married to John Rolfe, she died in England). John Rolfe Jr., after growing up in England, returns to Virginia, claims his grandfather's land, kills or enslaves his mother's relatives. Has one child (female) by an upper-class white woman, proudly "dies an Englishman". Colony's racist laws about Indians make a "Pocahontas Exception" for the English descendants of Rolfe, which in 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu is re-enacted by the U.S. Virginia State legislature, in racist laws about Indians and Blacks. English Countess Mountbatten and other rich white people are among the descendants of the unfortunate Powhattan girl, so the "one drop of inferior-race blood" statutes make this Pocahontas Exception just for them. These racist laws -- and the Pocahontas Exception (also racist) -- remained in force in Virginia until overturned in the Supreme Court decision Loving vs. Virginia, 1969. This wasn't in the Disney cartoon.
• 1624: Dutch settlers found Fort Orange ( Albany, New York) in New Netherlands.
• 1625: French settlements in the West Indies begin, exporting sugar and tobacco, and emigration to Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.
• 1625: The Franciscan friars are replaced by the heroic priests of the richer, better-organized Society of Jesus. Jesuits begin missionary work among the Indians in the Quebec area. Jean de Brébeuf founds missions in Huronia, near Georgian Bay.
• 1626: Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys Manhattan Island for 60 guilders worth of beads from the Canarsie Indians. (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island.) Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.
• 1627: Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the Company of One Hundred Associates (a.k.a. the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.
• 1628: Olivier Le Jeune, an 8-year-old boy from Madagascar, arrives in Quebec. He is the first recorded slave purchase in New France. Le Jeune is probably the first person of African origin to live most of his life in Canada.
• 1629: Quebec (the city) captured by an English fleet led by the adventurer David Kirke on July 19. (He also captured Port Royal the year before.)