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1600
john smith publishes tje gemeral history of virginia -
1600
willam bradford describes his journey across the atlantic and pilgrims -
1600
bay psalm book is the first book to be printed in america -
1600
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 -
1600
anne bradstreets poems, collected as the tenth muse
lately spurng up in america, are publishedin london -
1600
cotton mather publishes the wonders of the invisible
world in defense of the salem witch trials -
1700
the boston newspaper firstamerican newspaper -
1700
the colonial population reaches about a hlf million bostons population -
1700
peter the great, czar of russia, dies -
1700
Jonathan swift publishes Gilliver's travels -
1700
the religious revival know as the great awakening -
1750
Anigail adams writes first entry in what is published as familiar letters of john Adams -
1750
Tomas Paine's widely read pamphiet common sense passionatelu argues the case of independence -
1750
george washington invites Phillis Wheatly to visit after reading a poem -
1750
Olaudah equiano's iteresting narrative of treatment of captive africans