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Sep 6, 1492
Christopher Columbus
first four voyages to the Americas, hus adventures opened the door to a century of Spanish expeditions in the Americas. -
Jamestown, Virginia
first permanent English settlement in America -
Mayflower
the Mayflower pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth -
William Bradford
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public school
North America's first public school is founnded in Boston -
Printing press
the first colonial printing press is set up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Bay Psalm Book
this is the first book to be printed in America -
First Law
Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal. -
The British Navigation Act
sets up the office of customs commissioner in the colonies to collect duties on goods that pass between plantations. -
Isaac eEwton
Isaac publishes Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, considered to be the most important work of the scientific revolution. -
Newspaper
The Boston Newsletter, this is the first American newspaper to be established. -
The Dogood Papers
Benjamin Franklin uses humor to criticize the Puritan establishment in his first published work. -
Library
The first American public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin -
Johnathan Edwards sermon
John delivers a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." this typifies the religious movement known as the Great Awakening. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party mark sa violent rejection of Britain's taxation policies. -
Decleration of Independence
natural law that people are born with rights and freedoms and that it is the function of government to protect those freedoms.