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Columbus led his three ships and discovered America
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Explorer John Cabot Sails Along Massachusetts Coast
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Jamestown is located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony.
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Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement
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A council of Iroquois Indians at Onondaga renews the tribe's allegiance to England and promises aid against the French.
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When he was made Proprietor of his colony, William Penn became the largest landowner in the world.
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The community in Pennsylvania organizes the Collegium Musicum which will eventually become the Philharmonic Society. (it didn't give a day or month)
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Washington had left 40 of his fellow Virginians dead in the forest near Loyalhanna.
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New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City
