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First permanent, english settlement.
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commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, leaves London for his first successful voyage to the Americas, where he will explore the Delaware Bay and Hudson River.
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Sets sail for Guyana promising to respect Spanish rights in the region. Contrary to orders, his men destroyed the Spanish village of San Tome de Guyana.
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Raleigh returns to England and is executed, for treasonous actions against King James I originally assigned to him in 1603.
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Arriving in English North America. Twenty Africans captured by Portuguese traders of enslaved people are brought to Virginia on a Dutch Man-of-War battleship.
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The first representative assembly
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One of the Mayflower pilgrims, is named the first governor of Plymouth Colony.
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts was established by the Pilgrims.
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The founding of Pennsylvania, about 40,000 square miles, was confirmed to William Penn under the Great Seal on