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Jamestown is founded in america
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First tobacco crop planted
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the first 19or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in jamestown Virginia, in 1619, brought by English privateers who had seized them.
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in 1632, English King Charles I gave George Calvert a royal charter for the colony of Maryland. George died shortly after, but his son Cecil Calvert inherited the land. Cecil Calvert's brother, Leonard, led a number of settlers to Maryland in 1634
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Charles the first executed for treason.
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Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status.
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King Philips War of 1675-1676 marked the last major effort by the Indians of Southern New England to drive out the English settlers.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion that took place 1676-1677 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley
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The King appointed a President and Council from the 4,000 settlers of the seacoast area and required that they take office by January 21, 1680. John Cutt, a wealthy Portsmouth merchant became the first President of this unwanted government.
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La Salle secured a contract for the colonization of lower Louisiana from Louis XIV in 1683.
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Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
