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About 100 men sailed over from England and decided on Jamestown, Virginia as their first settlement, named after King James I. -
First representative assembly in America meets for the first time -
The year the first slaves were brought over to Virginia -
The Pilgram people landed on Plymouth Rock in Virginia -
One of the original English settlements in Massachusetts is founded -
British Parliament restricted colonial trade of the colonies -
English colonists claim New Amsterdam and rename it New York -
Known as the bloodiest war in history, the first war between the Natives and Colonists -
A rebellion by a small farmer ending in Jamestown burning to the ground -
In Salem, Massachusetts, two women accused townspeople of being witches and the accused were killed