Timeline
1400s (estimated). The Iroquois League is established as confederation of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes (later joined by Tuscarora), with an organized system of leaders adhering to principles of governance designed to control intertribal warfare. At its peak the Iroquois League exercised power over tribes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.
1400s (estimated).1664. The Iroquois League formally recognizes the Covenant Chain that binds it in a political and economic alliance with Great Britain.
1664.1739. Mutiny by 43rd Highland Regiment, the first of several mutinies against English officers by Highland troops.
1739.1742. William Johnson, Irish trader based on the Mohawk River, is honored for his embrace of tribal ways by being formally adopted as a chief
