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Columbus reached the Carabeaan and the island of San Salvador on this day. This is important becausae his "discovery" brought North America to the attention of Europe.
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144 English men and boys established the JAMESTOWN colony, It was named after King James I.
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The 102 travellers aboard the Mayflower landed upon the shores of Plymouth in 1620.
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The flagship of the Massachusetts Bay Company arrived in Salem to officially found the new colony. The company was founded by English Puritans, most of whom were educated and wealthy.
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During the second Anglo-Dutch War between England and the United Netherlands, the colony was surrendered to the English and renamed New York.
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Penn first called the area “New Wales”, then "Sylvania", which was changed to "Pennsylvania" in honor of the elder Penn.
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Albany Congress. Representatives of seven American colonies meeting in Albany, New York, in the summer of 1754 drew up a plan to unite the American colonies under a federal government.
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Something that happened during: Washington had left 40 of his fellow Virginians dead in the forest near Loyalhanna, mistaken for the enemy by their comrades while chasing French attackers.
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The French & Indian war officially came to an end on February 10, 1763, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
