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Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. The first European explorer to get there.
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The Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano landed in the neighborhood of Chesapeake Bay and explored the Atlantic coast of North America from Florida to New Brunswick including New York Bay and Narrangansett Bay. wikipdia
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Francis Drake landed on the coast of California in Drakes Bay.
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1584–1587. Sir Walter Raleigh unsuccessfully attempted to settle Roanoke Island.
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In 1606, just a few months after James I issued its charter, the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. They reached the Chesapeake Bay in the spring of 1607 and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown. The Jamestown colonists had a rough time of it: They were so busy looking for gold and other exportable resources that they could barely feed themselves.
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In Newfoundland, a chartered company known as the Society of Merchant Venturers established a permanent settlement at Cuper's Cove, from 1610.
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St. George's, Bermuda was founded by the Virginia Company, in 1612. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George%27s,_Bermuda)
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In 1632, the English crown granted about 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert. Maryland was similar to Virginia in many ways. Its landowners produced tobacco on large plantations that depended on the labor.
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England took over the Dutch colony of the New Netherland (including its capital of New Amsterdam) which England renamed the Province of New York. With New Netherland, the English also came to control the former New Sweden (in what is now Delaware), which the Dutch had conquered earlier. This later became part of Pennsylvania after that was established in 1680.
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Whilst the term "Great Awakening" refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history, a prominent one occurred around 1700. This saw increased religious enthusiasm occurring and was characterised by nationwide revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers, a sudden increase of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the part of those affected and the formation of new religious movements and denominations. (Wikipedia)
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With the rise of Robert Walpole as Prime Minister British officials began turning a blind eye to colonial violations of trade regulations, especially in North America with regards to the Navigation Acts.
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Friedrich der Grosse, George III of Great Britain, George Washington, Maria Theresa and Louis XV battle it out.
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Canada was by far the most settled portion of New France. Britain gained complete control of French Canada in 1759–1761, from the events within the North American theater of the Seven Years' War; France ceded title with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Became Canada East in the Province of Canada, which also included Ontario (Upper Canada) as Canada West, from 1841 to 1867.
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The Stamp Act or "Duties in American Colonies Act 1765" was an act of the Westminster that imposed a direct tax on the colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies were produced on paper produced in London which carried an embossed revenue stamp.
