ck killed by Indians in retaliation
Vane, Sir Henry, a victim of the restoration
Vane, Sir Henry, executed
Virginia divided into eight shires
Virginia restored to monarchy
Virginia threatened with civil war
Virginia, home ruled
Virginia's defence, 1675
Washington, Major John, kills Indians while bringing
a flag of truce
Whalley, one of Cromwell's generals
Wheelwright murdered by Indians
Wilford, Captain, hung by Berkeley
Windsor, Indian attack on
Winthrop and Governor Stuyvesant
Winthrop, John, and Charles II.
CHRONOLOGY.
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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.
1663. CLARENDON GRANT to Lord Clarendon and others,--March
24. (This grant extended from 30 deg. to
36 deg. lat., and from ocean to ocean.)
CHARTER OF RHODE ISLAND, giving religious liberties,
granted,--July 8.
1664. NEW NETHERLANDS granted to the Duke of York
and Albany,--March 12.
NEW JERSEY granted to Berkeley and Carteret,--June 24.
STUYVESANT surrenders New Amsterdam (New York City).
FORT ORANGE, N. Y., named Albany,--Sept. 24.
ELIZABETH, N. J., settled by emigrants from Long Island.
1665. CONNECTICUT AND NEW HAVEN united under the
name of Connecticut,--May.
SECOND CHARTER of Carolina; boundary extended
to 29 deg. lat.,--June 30.
CLARENDON COLONY, near Wilmington, N. C., permanently
settled.
1670. DETROIT, MICH., settled by the French.
CARTERET COLONY settled on Ashley River, near Charleston, S. C.
1671. MARQUETTE established the Mission of St. Ignatius,
at Michilimackinac.
1673. VIRGINIA granted to Culpepper and Islington.
MARQUETTE AND JOLIETTE explored the Mississippi River to the Arkansas.
1674. MARQUETTE founded a Missionary Station at Chicago, 111.
1675. MA
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