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first sucsessfull british settlement.
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Galileo Galilei sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. Galileo also showed the Copernican system in which the planets circle the sun was correct.
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William Shakespeare dies.
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Start of the Thirty Years' War - Protestants revolt against Catholic oppression; Denmark, Sweden, and France invade Germany in later phases of war. Johannes Kepler proposes last of three laws of planetary motion.
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agreement established by the men that sailed to america on the mayflower.
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the document in which the colonies declared indapendence
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a rebellion for the thirteen north american colonies of the great britian who declared indapendence.
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offers special pertection of individual liberty and justice, place's restrictions on the power of goverments.
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first ten admendments to the u.s constitution
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thomas jefferson bought this land from napolian to doubke our size.
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large numbers of people moved to california to collesct gold from the gold mines.
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the law that established the teritires for kansas and nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether they would allow slavery or not.
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the north and south fought over the states rights and the north won.
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the first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.