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        The first permanent English settlement was established. - 
  
  
        The start of Protestants revolting against the Catholic oppression marked the beginning of the Thirty Years War - 
  
  
        The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown - 
  
  
        The first representative assembly in America met for the first time in Virginia. - 
  
  
        Pilgrims from England arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower - 
  
  
        Isaac Newton started experimenting with gravity - 
  
  
        French settlers moved to Mississippi from Louisiana