Just another alternative timeline

1000.                  Leif Ericson discovers Vinland (New England).

1492.                  Columbus discovers the New World.

1497.                  The Cabots set sail for the New World, they do not return.

1498.                  Columbus on third voyage discovers South America.

1501.                  Columbus dies in Venezuela.

1502.                  Columbus’ body is returned to Spain and interred at a cathedral in Valladolid.

1507.                  New World named after Americus Vespucius.

1513.                  Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean and Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.

1519-1521.       Cortez conquers Mexico. Magellan sails round the world.

1524.                  Verrazano and Gomez explore New England coast.

1528.                  Cabeza do Vaca explores southern United States.

1533.                  Pizarro conquers Peru.

1534.                  Cartier sails to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

1541.                  Do Soto discovers the Mississippi River.  Expedition lost.

1565.                  Founding of St. Augustine.

1576.                  Frobisher discovers northwest passage, Frobisher Strait.

1579.                  Drake explores coast of California.

1584.                  Raleigh sends first expedition to America.

1588.                  Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

1604.                  Acadia settled by the French.

1607.                  May 12. Founding of Jamestown, Virginia.

1608.                  Founding of Quebec by Champlain.

1609.                  Hudson discovers the Hudson River.

1619.                  First assembly meets at Jamestown. Slaves first sold in Virginia.

1620.                  Coming of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower.

1623.                  Settlements at New Amsterdam. First settlements in New Hampshire.

1630.                  The great emigration to Massachusetts. The failed founding of Boston.

1634.                  Maryland first settled by Calvert.

1635.                  Connecticut settled by emigrants from the old Boston settlement.

1636.                  Founding of Providence by Roger Williams. Harvard College founded.

1637.                  War with Pequot Indians. First negro slaves in New England.

1638.                  Swedes first settle in Delaware.

1639.                  First constitution in America adopted by Connecticut.

1643.                  May 30. New England Confederation formed.

1649.                  Toleration Act in Maryland.

1655.                  Stuyvesant conquers the Swedes in Delaware.

1656.                  Europeans expelled from Massachusetts.

1662.                  Connecticut charter granted.

1663.                  Charter granted to Rhode Island. Charter for the Carolinas granted.

1664.                  September 8. The English conquer New Amsterdam. New Jersey given by King Charles II to his brother, the Duke of York.
1665.                  New Hampshire wildfires drive Europeans out.  Fires stop at the edge of the old Boston settlement.

1666.                  Origin War.  Connecticut evacuated to New Amsterdam.  Rhode Island lost.

1667.                  Fundamental Constitutions drawn up for the Carolinas.

1673.                  Marquette explores the Mississippi.  Discovers the De Soto shipwrecks.

1676.                  Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. King Phillips War in New Amsterdam

1681.                  Penn receives charter for Pennsylvania.

1682.                  Penn founds Philadelphia and enslaves the Indians. La Salle explores Louisiana and takes possession for France.

1692.                  Philadelphia witchcraft killings. Indians take in women accused of using devil magic.

1700.                  Iberville plants colony in Louisiana.

1713.                  Treaty of Utrecht, ending Queen Anne's War, which began in 1702.

1733.                  Georgia settled by Oglethorpe.

1748.                  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ending King George's War, which began in 1744.

1754.                  Colonial Congress at Albany; Franklin's plan of union.

1755.                  Braddock's defeat.

1756.                  French and Indian War formally begun.

1759.                  Wolfe captures Quebec.

1763.                  Treaty of Paris.  Evacuation of Pennsylvania.

1770.                  First Battle of New Amsterdam.