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January 9, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Sees First Sight Of Manatees
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October 19, 1469 - Ferdinand and Isabella Marry, Uniting Aragon and Castile
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April 29, 1483 - Gran Canaria Conquered By the Kingdom Of Castile
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May 1, 1486 - Christopher Columbus' Initial Meeting With Queen Isabella
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January 02, 1492 - Spain Recaptures Granada from the Moors
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April 17, 1492 Christopher Columbus Signs Contract With Spain to Find the Indies
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August 3, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Sets Sail On His First Voyage
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August 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Arrives In The Canary Islands
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October 12, 1492 - Columbus Arrives In The Bahamas
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October 16, 1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
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October 28, 1492 Columbus Reaches Cuba on First Voyage
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November 05, 1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize
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November 15, 1492 - Christopher Columbus Notes First Reference to Tobacco Smoking
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November 21, 1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus
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December 05, 1492 - Columbus Turns South - Missing Florida
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December 25, 1492 - The Santa Maria Runs Aground
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December 26, 1492 First Spanish Settlement In New World Founded By Columbus
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January 06, 1493 - Martín Alonso Pinzón and Columbus Reunite
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January 16, 1493 Columbus Returns To Spain On His First Trip
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February 15, 1493 - Half of Columbus' Crew Imprisoned in the Azores Islands
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March 04, 1493 - Columbus Lands at Lisbon, Portugal
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March 15, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Returns To Spain After First Voyage
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September 24, 1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
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November 03, 1493 - Columbus Sights Dominica
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November 19, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Discovers Puerto Rico
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November 28, 1493 - Christopher Columbus Returns to La Navidad,
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December 6, 1493 - Haiti discovered by Columbus
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December 08, 1493 - Columbus Founds La Isabela
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April 24, 1494 - Columbus Departs La Isabela to Explore
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May 4, 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
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July 02, 1494 - Spain Ratified the Treaty of Tordesillas
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August 20, 1494 - Columbus Returned To Hispaniola
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March 10, 1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the New World.
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May 2, 1497 - John Cabot departs to North-America
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May 10, 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci Leaves For First Voyage To New World
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June 24, 1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
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August 06, 1497 - John Cabot Returned to England
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May 30, 1498 - Columbus Departs With Six Ships for Third Trip to America
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July 31, 1498 - Columbus Makes Landfall on Trinidad
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August 01, 1498 - Columbus Lands on South America
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August 16, 1498 - Christopher Columbus reached Magarita Island (Venezuela)
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August 19, 1498 - Arrival at Hispaniola
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October 01, 1500 - Columbus Sent Back to Spain in Chains
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May 9, 1502 - Columbus Left Spain On His Fourth And Final Trip To New World
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June 29, 1502 - Columbus Arrives Santo Domingo - Fourth Voyage
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July 30, 1502 - Columbus First Contact with Maya
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October 16, 1502 - Columbus Arrives at Almirante Bay, Panama
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January 09, 1503 - Columbus Builds Garrison Mouth of Rio Belen
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January 20, 1503 - Casa Contratacion Founded To Deal With American Affairs
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June 25, 1503 - Columbus Shipwrecked on Jamaica
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November 07, 1504 - Columbus Returned To Spain Following His Fourth Voyage
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May 20, 1506 - Christopher Columbus Died
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April 25, 1507 - Geographer Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann First Used the Name America
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March 27, 1513 - Spanish Explorer Sights Florida
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April 2, 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
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March 06, 1521 - Magellan Discovers Guam
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January 17, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Departs for First North American Exploration
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March 01, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Arrives Cape Fear, North Carolina
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April 17, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Enters Hudson Bay
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July 08, 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano Returns to France
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September 29, 1526 - Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón Lands in South Carolina
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October 8, 1525 - First European Settlement in North America Founded
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December 25, 1526 - Pánfilo de Narváez Receives License to Settle in Florida
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June 17, 1527 - Narváez Expedition Departs Spain
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April 12, 1528 - Narváez Expedition Arrives Florida
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August 03, 1527 – First Documented Letter Sent From British North America
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November 06, 1528 - Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca Becomes First European in Texas
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April 20, 1534 - Jacques Cartier Departs St. Malo To Explore Canadian Coastline
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May 19, 1535 - Jacques Cartier Set Sail For A Second Voyage
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May 28, 1539 - Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
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February 23, 1540 - Coronado Begins Search For the Seven Cities of Gold
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April 22, 1522 - Treaty of Saragosa Spain & Portugal Divide Eastern Hemisphere
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May 8, 1541 - Hernando De Soto Reaches the Mississippi River
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May 23, 1541 Cartier Departed Saint-Malo on His Third Voyage With Five Ships
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September 30, 1541 - Hernando De Soto And His Forces Enter Tula Territory
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May 12, 1542 - Hernando de Soto Died on the Banks of the Mississippi River
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November 20, 1542 - Spain Delegates "New Laws" Against Slavery In America
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September 19, 1559 - Hurricane Destroys First Spanish Settlement at Pensacola
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December 09, 1561- Edwin Sandys Born
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June 11, 1562 - Jean Ribault Leaves Twenty-Eight Men on Parris Island NC
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June 22, 1564 - French Establish Fort Caroline in Florida
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October 18, 1564 - John Hawkins Second Voyage - Established English Slave Trade
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September 08, 1565 - Founding of St. Augustine
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September 28, 1565 - Jean Ribault Returns with Relief Expedition to Fort Caroline
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September 20 - 1565 - Spanish Destroy Fort Caroline
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September 29, 1565 - Massacre at Matanzas Inlet
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November 15, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake Sets out to Circumnavigate the Earth
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December 13, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake Second Departure on Quest to Circumnavigate the Earth
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June 17, 1579 - Sir Francis Drake Lands On the Coast Of California
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September 26, 1580 - Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England
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June 11, 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert Departs England for New Foundland
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August 05, 1583 - Gilbert claims Newfoundland
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August 29, 1583 - Wreck of the Delight- Gilbert Expedition
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September 09, 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his Ship the Squirrel Disappear in a Storm
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March 25, 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh Receives Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
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July 04, 1584 - First Explorers of Roanoke Island Arrive
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April 09, 1585 - First Settlers Depart England for Roanoke Island
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May 19, 1585 - Spain Seized English Merchant Ships - Spawns the Anglo-Spanish War
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September 14, 1585 - Drake Departs on the Great Raid
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November 11, 1585 - Sir Francis Drake Raids Santiago
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January 01, 1586 - Sir Francis Drake Raids Santo Domingo
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June 6, 1586 - Sir Francis Drake Raid on St. Augustine
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June 19, 1586 - First Attempt to Settle Roanoke Island Fails As English Colonists Flee
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July 3, 1586 - Grenville Returns to Roanoke Island to Re-supply the First Colony
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July 28, 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to the English Isles
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May 8, 1587 - Second Group of Settlers Depart England for Roanoke Island
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July 22, 1587 - Lost Colony Established
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August 18, 1587 - Virginia Dare - First English Child Born In The New World
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July 21, 1588 - English Fleet Begins Bombardment of the Spanish Armada
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July 29, 1588 - Spanish Armada Defeated and Scattered By English Defenders
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October 24, 1590 – John White Returns to England From Lost Colony of Roanoke
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April 30, 1598 - Juan de Oñate Claims all of the territory drained by the Rio Grande
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June 23, 1601 - Juan de Oñate Begins Great Plains Expedition
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May 15, 1602 - Cape Cod Discovered By English Navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
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November 12, 1602 - Sebastián Vizcaíno Names San Diego
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December 16, 1602 - Sebastian Vizcaíno Enters Monterey Bay
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September 05, 1604 - Samuel Champlain Sights Isles des Monts Desert
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April 10, 1606 - The First Charter Of Virginia Is Adopted
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December 20, 1606 - English Colonists Sail From London to Found Jamestown Colony
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April 26, 1607 - First British to Establish an American Colony Land At Cape Henry VA
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May 14, 1607 - English Colonists Land Near James River in Virginia
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May 26, 1607 - Jamestown Residents Under Attack
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August 13, 1607 - Popham Colony Established
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August 31, 1607 - Maine's First Ship Begun - Pinnace Virginia
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September 17, 1607 - First Jury Award in the English Colonies
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September 28, 1607 - Samuel de Champlain and his Colonists Depart Nova Scotia
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January 7, 1698 - Fire Destroys Jamestown Virginia
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July 03, 1608 - Samuel De Champlain Founds Quebec City
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June 02, 1608 - Smith's First Chesapeake Voyage
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August 13, 1608 - John Smith's Story Of Jamestown's First Days Submitted For Publication
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September 10, 1608 - John Smith Takes Over as Governor of Jamestown
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October 01, 1608 - First Non-English Settlers Arrived in Jamestown
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June 2, 1609 - Sea Venture - Third Supply Shipment For Jamestown Leaves Plymouth, England
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July 28, 1609- Wreck of the Sea Venture - Third Jamestown Supply Mission
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September 3, 1609 - Hudson Sailed Into New York's Harbor
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September 7, 1609 - Shipwreck Survivors on Burmuda Begin Building the Ship Patience
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September 12, 1609 - Henry Hudson Enters Hudson River
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September 23, 1609 - Henry Hudson Departs North America
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February 28, 1610 - Thomas West Baron De La Warr Appointed First Governor of Virginia
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May 24, 1610 - Sir Thomas Gates Institutes "Laws Divine Moral And Martiall
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June 8, 1610 - Thomas West Saves Jamestown Colony
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August 02, 1610 - Henry Hudson Discovers Hudson Bay
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August 9, 1610 - Lord De la Warr Initiated the First Anglo-Powhatan War
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June 22, 1611 - Hudson's Crew Mutinies
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October 20, 1611 - Hudson's Discovery Returns to London
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July 2, 1613 - Samuel Argall Leads English Expedition to Mount Desert Island
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July 20, 1613 - John Rolf in Virginia Receives First Tobacco Samples
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April 14, 1614 - Pocahontas Daughter Of Chief Powhatan Marries Planter John Rolfe
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October 11, 1614 - Adriaen Block Petitions for Exclusive New Netherlands Trading Rights
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June 12, 1616 - Pocahontas and John Rolfe arrive in London
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November 18, 1618 - Great Charter of Virginia Drafted
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April 19, 1619 - Governor George Yeardly Arrives Jamestown
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July 17, 1619 - First Labor Strike in Colonial America Ends
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July 30, 1619 – Virginia Company Formed First Elective Colonial Governing Body
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August 29, 1619 ? - First BlacksLand at Jamestown Virginia
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January 31, 1620 - Virginia Colony Leaders Request More Orphans for Workers
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February 02, 1620 - First Pierce Patent to Pilgrims
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July 22, 1620 - Pilgrims Depart Delfshaven, Netherlands for England
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August 15, 1620 - Mayflower Sets Sail From England
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November 03, 1620 - Council for New England Organized
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November 11. 1620 - Mayflower Compact Signed
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November 20, 1620 - Birth of First English Child in New England
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December 21, 1620 - Pilgrims Assigned Out House-Plots To 19 Family Groups
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January 7, 1621 - Plymouth Settlers Divided Into 19 Families
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February 17, 1621 - Miles Standish Appointed First Commander of Plymouth Colony
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March 16, 1621 - Samoset First Visits Plymouth Colony
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March 22, 1621 - Massasoit and Pilgrims Agree On League Of Friendship
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April 5, 1621 - Mayflower Sails From Plymouth on a Return Trip to England
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June 3, 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
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June 18, 1621 - The First Duel In America Took Place
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December 05 - 1621 - First Report of European Honeybees in the Colonies
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March 22, 1622 - Second Powhatan War Begins With Massacre
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September 04, 1622 - Ill Fated Treasure Ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha Departs Havanna
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June 14, 1623 - First Breach-Of-Promise Lawsuit In Colonies
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September 10, 1623 - First Cargo Departs New Plymouth for England - Lumber and Furs
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March 29, 1624 - First Wave of Dutch Settlers Depart for New Netherlands
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June 16, 1624 - Virginia Company Loses Charter - Virginia Becomes Crown Colony
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May 4, 1626 - Peter Minuit Becomes Director-General of New Netherlands
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May 6, 1626 Dutch Governor Peter Minuit Buys Manhattan for $24 in Trinkets
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November 15, 1626 - Pilgrims Buy Out London Investors
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March 19, 1628 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded
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June 7, 1628 - Charles I grants Royal Assent to The Petition of Right
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June 9, 1628 - First deportation from British North American Colonies
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September 06, 1628 - Puritans land at Salem, Massachusettes
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August 26, 1629 - Cambridge Agreement Mass Bay Co Stockholders Agree To Emigrate
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January 13, 1630 - Warwick Patent to Plymouth Colony Issued
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April 8, 1630 - First Four Ships of the "Winthrop Fleet" Depart From Yarmouth, England
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May 29, 1630 - Governor John Winthrop Begins " History of New England "
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May 30, 1630 - Dorchester Massachusetts Established
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June 25, 1630 - Table Fork Introduced To American Dining By John Winthrop
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July 12, 1630 - Dutch Buy Gull Island From Natives, Later Renamed Ellis Island
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September 16, 1630 - Shawmut changes name to Boston
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September 30, 1630 - First execution in British North America
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October 19, 1630 - In Boston The First General Court Is Held
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December 28, 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Chooses New Site for Capital
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February 5, 1631 - Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams Arrives In Boston
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May 18, 1631-Massachusetts Bay Colony Grants Freemen Voting Rights
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August 17, 1631 - Kent Island, Maryland Settled
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