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Jan 18, 1517
Martin Luther begins Protestant reformation
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Jan 18, 1536
John Calvin Publishes "Institutes of the Christian religion"
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Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
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English crush Irish uprising
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Jan 1, 1577
Drake Circumnavigates the globe
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Raleigh Founds "lost colony" at Roanoke
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England defeats Spanish Armada
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Edict of Nantes
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James 1 Becomes King of England
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Spain and England sign peace treaty
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Vriginia colony founded at Jamestown
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Champlain colonizes Quebec
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Rolfeperfects tobacco culture in Virginia
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First Anglo-Powahatan War ends
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First Africans arrive in Jamestown
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House of Burgess is formed
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Viginia becomes royal colony
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Dutch found New Netherland
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Population in America 2,000 --> 250,000
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Charles I persecutes puritans
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Puritans found Massachusetts bay
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Myland colony founded
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Connecticut and New Haven colonies formed
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Roger Williams Found Rhode Island
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Harvard College Founded
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Pequot War
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Anne Hutchinson Banished from Mass. Colony
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Connecticuts Fundamental Orders drafted
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Large-scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies
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English Civil War
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New Engalnd Confederation Formed
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Louis XIV is King of France
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Second Anglo-Powahatan War
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Acts of Toleration in Maryland
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Charles I Beheaded; Cromwell rules England
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First Navigation Laws
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Charles II restored to english thrown
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Barbados Slave code adopted
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Half-Way covenant
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England Seizes New Netherlands
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Carolina Colony created
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King Phillips war
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Mass Expansion of slavery begins in colonies
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony
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La salle explores Mississippi river
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Dominion of New England is created
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Glorious Revolution
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King Williams war
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Leisler's Rebeliion
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Salem Witch trial
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College of William and Mary Founded
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Royal African Company slave monopoly ended
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Yale Founded
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Queen Anne's War
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Tuscarora War in North Carolina
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North and South Carolina separate
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New York City slave revolt
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Yamasee War in South Carolina
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Founding of NOLA
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Smallpox Innoculation!
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Poor Richard's Almanac is published
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Georgia Colony formed
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John Edwards starts Great Awakening
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Zenger free-press trial in NY
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South Carolina Slave revolt
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War of Jenkins Ear
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King Georges War
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Washington battles french on frontier
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Seven Year's War
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Braddock's defeat
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Pitt becomes leader of British gov't
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Battle of Quebec
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Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures
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Peace of Paris, Potiac's uprising, Proclaimation of 1763
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Princeton College founded
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Paxton Boys march on Philly
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Brown College Founded
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Sugar Act
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Quatering and Stap Acts
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Rutgers Founded
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Declatory Act
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Townshend Acts
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Occupy Boston
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Dartmouth College Founded
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Regulator protests
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Boston Massacre, Townshend acts repealed (except for tea)
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British East india company granted tea monopoly
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Boston Tea Party
