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Jamestown was established
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French Indian War started.
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French Indian War ended.
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Colonies declared themselves independent.
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United States of american was born.
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There was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe that was called the Enlightenment.
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Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention. "give me liberty, or give me death."
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Christopher Columbus began his jounrney to the new world.
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"True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot was published.
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Anne Bradstreet's book of poetry "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" was published
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Pslams were written to fit the rythyms of familiar Puritan hyms
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Jonathon Edwards delivers his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God"
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Abigail Adams writes her first entry in "Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail"
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The Boston Newsletter, first american newspaper.
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George Washington invites Phillis Wheatley to visit.
