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john smith publishes tje gemeral history of virginia
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willam bradford describes his journey across the atlantic and pilgrims
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bay psalm book is the first book to be printed in america
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anne bradstreet
1 Jan 1650 "the tenth muse lately sprung up in america" was the first work by a north american woman t be published -
anne bradstreets poems, collected as the tenth muse
lately spurng up in america, are publishedin london -
cotton mather publishes the wonders of the invisible
world in defense of the salem witch trials -
the boston newspaper firstamerican newspaper
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the colonial population reaches about a hlf million bostons population
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peter the great, czar of russia, dies
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Jonathan swift publishes Gilliver's travels
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the religious revival know as the great awakening
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Anigail adams writes first entry in what is published as familiar letters of john Adams
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Tomas Paine's widely read pamphiet common sense passionatelu argues the case of independence
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george washington invites Phillis Wheatly to visit after reading a poem
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Olaudah equiano's iteresting narrative of treatment of captive africans