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| 1609 |
| | | A law is passed expelling the Moriscos from Spain, with the result that some 300,000 are shipped to north Africa | |
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| 1616 |
| | | Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown | |
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| 1616 |
| | | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1620 September 16 |
| | | The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world | |
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| 1630 |
| | | John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1763 |
| | | English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton | |
|  | Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes
People's History Museum, Manchester
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| 1764 |
| | | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies | |
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