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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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The telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey.
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The Kalmar War was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden.
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The Thirty Years’ War was a 17th-century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe.
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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A series of wars known as the American-Indian Wars took place between Indians and American settlers, mainly over land control.
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King Philip’s War pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies that was one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place in 1676.
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Guericke creates the air pump.
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English inventor and engineer Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.