| Year |
History |
|
|
| 1608 |
Met Captain John
Smith when he was exploring Chesapeake Bay |
| 1610 |
Attacked the Potomac
(Powhatan) villages in northern Virginia |
| 1614 |
Dutch had established
a trading post on the Hudson River |
| 1615 |
Etienne Brulé
reached the Susquehannock villages on the upper Susquehanna River; French
allied with tribe |
| 1626 |
Susquehannock
attacked the Delaware |
| 1630 |
Dutch began trading
with the Susquehannock; the Susquehannock soon became well armed |
| 1631 |
William Claiborne
established a trading post on Kent Island in upper Chesapeake Bay;
Susquehannock traded with the French in Canada (through the Huron), the
Dutch on Delaware Bay, and the English in Virginia. |
| 1638 |
Swedish settlements
on the Delaware River, by then the Delaware were entirely subject to the
Susquehannock |
| 1642 |
The governor of
Maryland had declared the Susquehannock were enemies of the colony and to
be shot on sight |
| 1645 |
Peace treaty with
Maryland |
| 1646 |
Susquehannock
extended their dominion south from the Susquehanna to the Potomac River |
| 1649 |
Susquehannock
fighting with Virginia Puritans in northern Maryland |
| 1651 |
Mohawk and Oneida attacked Susquehannock
villages |
| 1652 |
Signed a treaty with
Maryland ceding much of the lower Susquehanna Valley |
| 1654 |
Smallpox epidemic,
fighting slowed |
| 1655 |
Dutch took over Swedish
settlements; Susquehannock war began with Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga;
Susquehannock allied in war with Shawnee, Delaware, Nanticoke, Conoy,
Saponi, and Tutelo |
| 1656 |
Susquehannock pushed
down the eastern branch of the Susquehanna before making a peace agreement
with the Mohawk |
| 1658 |
War with western
Iroquois, Shawnee brought into war as Susquehannock allies but were
quickly defeated and dispersed |
| 1661 |
Susquehannock
smallpox epidemic leaving only 300 warriors |
| 1663 |
Turned back a major
Iroquois invasion with English help |
| 1664 |
British seized New
York from the Dutch |
| 1666 |
Maryland renewed its treaty with the Susquehannock |
| 1669 |
Asked Iroquois for
peace but Iroquois killed the ambassador who brought the peace offer |
| 1675 |
Susquehannock
surrendered to the Iroquois; survivors settled on the upper Potomac
River at the invitation of the Maryland's governor; Colonel John
Washington (great-grandfather of George) attacked the tribe with 1,000
men; Susquehannock launched a series of retaliatory raids on the Virginia
and Maryland frontier; Susquehannock moved north but were attacked by
Maryland militia near Columbia |
| 1676 |
Surviving
Susquehannock surrendered to the Iroquois |
| 1763 |
20 surviving
Susquehannock, all Christians beaten to death by vigilantes, the Paxton
boys |
