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1450-Printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg
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1492-Christopher Columbus lands in San Salvador
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1498-Vasco da Gama makes the all water trip to India
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1513-Ponce de Leon lands in Florida
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1517-German Monk Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the church door
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1519-Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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1531-Pizarro conquers the Incas
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1534-King Henry VIII breaks from the Roman Catholic Church and founds the Anglican Church
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Jacques Cartier claims the St. Lawrence Seaway and parts of Canada for France
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Hernando De Soto discovers the Mississippi River
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France sends Giovanni Verrazano to search for the Northwest Passage.
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1552- Bartolome de Las Casa writes A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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1565-St. Augustine, Florida is founded (the oldest city in the US)
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1585- Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina
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1588-Spanish Armada is defeated and England becomes Mistress of the Seas
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Captain John White returns to Roanoke.
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Jamestown is founded by the London Company of England
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1608-Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec
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The Dutch send Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage
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1624-Dutch West India Company sent settler to settle in New Netherlands (parts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut)
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The Dutch West India Company sends settlers to New Netherlands.
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Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan Island from the Native Americans
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New Amsterdam is founded by Peter Minuit.
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1638-Peter Minuit helped the Swedish found Ft. Christina on the Delaware River
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Ft. Christina is founded
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French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore the Mississippi River
