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| 1674 |
| | | Samuel Sewall begins a diary of daily life in Boston, Massachusetts, that will span a period of more than fifty years | |
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| 1675 |
| | | A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War | |
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| 1680 |
| | | The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish, killing 21 missionaries and some 400 colonists | |
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| 1681 |
| | | Charles II grants William Penn the charter for the region that becomes Pennsylvania, in settlement of a debt to Penn's father | |
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| 1682 |
| | | Robert de la Salle travels down the Mississippi to its mouth and claims the entire region for France, naming it Louisiana | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania | |
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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn achieves peace for Pennsylvania by negotiating a treaty with the local Lenape (or Delaware) tribes | |
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| 1683 |
| | | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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| 1692 |
| | | The Massachusetts town of Salem is gripped by witch-hunting hysteria | |
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| 1692 |
| | | Twenty people convicted of witchcraft are hanged in Salem, and one is pressed to death | |
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