A LIST OF DATES BEARING UPON COLONIAL POLICY

First expedition of Cabot .

Second Patent to Cabot Formal possession taken of Newfoundland by Sir H. Gi Formal possession taken of Virginia First Charter of Virginia Company Second jj j) ^

Bermudas settled .

Settlement in New England of Mayflower Pilgrims Grant of Nova Scotia to Sir W. Alexander Barbados settled ....

Revocation of Charter of Virginia Company Charter of Massachusetts Bay Company .

English capture of Quebec Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye Grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore Committee of Privy Council for administering Colonies Parliamentary Commissioners for administering Colonies Navigation Ordinance Conquest of Jamaica Navigation Act

Council for Foreign Plantations Charter to Connecticut „ Rhodes Island

Charters of Carolina to Lord Shaftesbury and others Conquest of New Amsterdam (New York)

Treaty of Breda (restoration of Acadia to France) Charter of Hudson’s Bay Company Abolition of Council for Trade and Plantations . Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations Charter to Penn of Pennsylvania .

Revocation of Charter of Massachusetts .

Conquest of Port Royal by Phipps . .

New Charter of Massachusetts

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1663

1497

1498

1583

1584 1606 1609

609-1612 1620

1623 624-1625

1624 1629 1629 1632 1632

1634

1643 1651 1655

1660

1661

1662

1663 and 1665

1664 1667 1670

1674

1675 1681 1683

1690

1691