Peter Stuyvesant made governor of the New Netherlands. 1649. Toleration Act in Maryland. 1650. Sir William Berkeley commissioned by Charles II. 1651. Sir George Ayscue sent to subdue the West. 1651-58. The towns of Maine under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. 1652. Richard Bennet governor of Virginia. 1653. Le Moyne, the Jesuit, sent as an envoy to the Iroquois. 1654. War with the Nyantic Indians. 1654. Stephenson took Acadia. 1655. Peter Stuyvesant captured the Swedish settlements. Edward Digges, Governor of Virginia. Victory of the Protestants at Providence, Maryland. 1657. Lord Baltimore restored in Maryland. 1659. Josias Fendall, Governor of Maryland. 1661. Royal Commissioners sent to the colonies. 1662. Charles Calvert made Governor of Maryland. Charter granted to Connecticut. 1663. Charter granted to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas. Canada became a Royal Province. 1664. Colbert created the Company of the West. Richard Nicolls captured New Amsterdam. 1665. Attempt of De Ruyter to retake New Amsterdam. Marquis de Tracy made Lieutenant-General of Canada. 1666. Courcelles attacked the Iroquois. The Treaty of Breda. La Salle arrived in Canada. 1667. Locke's Fundamental Constitutions for the Carolinas. Terrific gale in Maryland and Virginia. 1668. Francis Lovelace made Governor of New York. Jacques Marquette, a missioner on Lake Superior. 1669. La Salle supposed to have discovered the Ohio. 1670. Incorporation of the Hudson Bay Company. William Sayle came from the Barbadoes to South Carolina. 1671. Sir John Yeamans, Governor of South Carolina. 1672. Count Frontenac made Governor of Canada. Grants in Virginia to Lords Arlington and Culpeper. 1673. Cornelius Eversen retook New York. The establishment of Fort Frontenac. Joliet and Marquette reach the Mississippi. 1674. Death of Marquette. The Treaty of Westminster restored New York to the English. Carteret and Berkeley given rights in New Jersey. Joseph West made Governor of South Carolina. 1674-1676. King Philip's War. 1675. Death of Cecil, Lord Baltimore. 1677. The end of Berkeley's rule in Virginia. Thomas Eastchurch, Governor of Carolina. 1678. Massachusetts purchased all rights over Maine. La Salle given leave to discover the western parts of New France. La Salle, De Tonty, and Father Hennepin allied as discoverers. Fort Niagara built. 1679. La Salle sailed up Lakes Erie and Michigan. 1680. La Salle built Fort Crèvecoeur on the lower Illinois.