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Saved by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief
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Set off in the mayflower for a better life
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the pilgrims settle and called the land Plymouth
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A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers
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First Massachusetts settlement
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North America's first university is founded at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and soon receives a large bequest from John Harvard
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Roger Williams founds Rhode Island as a colony, based on religious tolerance
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The Powhatan leader Opechancanough launches another surprise attack on the Virginia settlements, killing about 500 colonists
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The aged Powhatan leader Opechancanough is captured by the English and executed, ending the last significant Indian threat to Virginia
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New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime
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Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular
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The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish, killing 21 missionaries and some 400 colonists
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William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania
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The Massachusetts town of Salem is gripped by witch-hunting hysteria. Twenty people convicted of witchcraft are hanged in Salem, and one is pressed to death