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Christopher Columbous signs a contract with Spain to find a faster route to the Indies.
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Christopher Columbous makes land fall in the Bahamas, but he believes it is east Asia.
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Hernan Cortes invades Mexico, Captures the Aztec's and establishes New Spain
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is ship wrecked off the coast of Texas and starts an eight year odyssey that he is first to set foot in the West.
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Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay to begin his expedition across the southeast.
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Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado leads Mexico's invasion of the North with 300 conquistadres and more than 1000 Indians
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Spain's "New Laws" barring Indian Enslavement are repealed at the insistence of the New World colonists. They developed a colony depended on slave labor.
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Bartolome de Las Casa was the first priest in the western hemisphere and cheif architect of the "New Laws". He also published "Brief Relations of theDestruction of the Indies", about gruesome examples of the colonists treatment of the Indies.
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Jamestown is founded in Virginia. This is the first permanent English colony on the continent.
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Quebec found in Canada as the first permenent French colony on the continent.
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Simon Marius discovers jupiter moons but does not officially report it. Galileo does on July 1st 1610.
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English Pilgrims land at Plymouth ROck, Massachuetts
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Horses stolen from the ranches of New Mexico begin to transform the culture of the Plains. This enabled Native Americans to hunt and fight in battle.
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The first United Staes police corps was established
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John Lockes constitution of English colony of Carolina approved.
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Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette became first Europeans to journey down the Mississippi.
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Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, and Henri de Tonti complete a four month vouage in what is now The Gulf of Mexico, claiming the Mississippi Valley for France and named it Louisianna.
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Massachuetts holds a day of fasting for the wrongly persecuting "witches".
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Eusebio Kino produces a map that established California is part of North America.
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James Oglethorpe founded the Georgia colony, near Savannah.
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First Jockey Club was established in South Carolina
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England and Russia sign a trade agreement
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First opera in United States is opened in Charleston, South Carolina.
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A fourty foot wave sinks 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 in Bengal, India.
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Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India.
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The Treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojucular War with settlement of the boundary dispute and exchange prisoners.
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French explorer Piere Gaultier de Varennes et de la Verendrye reaches the western shore of lake Michigan.
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Slave revolt in Stono, South Carolina is led by a man named Jemmy. Twenty-five whites were killed.
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Andrew Bedford publishes the first American Magazine called "American Magazine".
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The state that is now Alaska is discovered by a Danish explorer by the name of Vitus Bering
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Astronomer Andres Clecius introduces the centigrade temperature scale
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Benjamin Franklin invents the "Franklin Stove".
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THe first American Town Meeting was held. It was located in Boston's Faneuil Hall
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James Bradley announces the discovery of Earth's notation motion, which is the wobble.
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A riot occurs after a public execution in Amsterdam with two hundred plus people killed
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The first Luther denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
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The F.H.C Society, also known as the Fat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Wlliamsburg, Virginia. This was the first college fraternity.
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The first fire insurance policy was issued in Philadelphia
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New York passes the first effective law regulating practice of medicine.
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Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. This surrendered Canada to England
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John Adams marries Abigail Smith, and the marriage lasts 54 years.
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The stamp act has been passed by the British
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This act was establishede and forced American colonists to house British soldiers.
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First United States medical college established in Philadelphia
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This act was repealed by the King
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British government disbands Americans import duty on tea.
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British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
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1st US Chamber of Commerce forms in New York City.
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1st Methodist church in US initiated named WEsley chapel, in New York.
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Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd.
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The Townshend Acts are repealed by the king.
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Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
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1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania holds communion in Ohio
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1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
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Slaves in Massachusetts petition for freedom
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America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
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1st Continental Congress assembles in philadelphia
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Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "British are coming!" And British begin siege of Boston
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Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
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New York adopts a new consitituion to become a state
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Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands, also known as the Hawaiian Islands
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Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
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THe first balloon flight in the UNited States was by 13 year old Edward Warren
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Samuel Ellis advertised to sell Oyster Island which is now called Ellis Island and he did not recieve any takers
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Benjamin Franklin created the new glasses that help for reading close up and far away.
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Shays Rebellion fails and the farmers have to pay debts.
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THe first newspaper was published on this date west of the Alleghanies, called the PItts Gazette
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Pennsylvania Quakers have emancipated their slaves, but solomly this does not exile discrimination
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THe first American novel is published and it was written by W.H. Brown's "Power of Sympathy"
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Thomas Jefferson joins Washington's cabinet as the Secretary of State.
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The first United States law school was established, called the University of Pennsylvania
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On this date, President George Washington vetoed his first bill
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The Capitol Building was changed from Philadelphia
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THe United States Navy was formed
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This Treaty was signed between Spain & US, establishing southern boundary of US and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi.
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THe new White House is finsished and the PResident Adams and his wife move in.
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John MArshall is appointed as the United States Chief Justice
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THe supreme court declares their first law unconstitutional and this law was Marbury vs. Madison.
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New Jersey becomes last state to abolish slavery.
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Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos
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US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
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Mississippi River steamboat service begins
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Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida called the Adams-Onís Treaty.
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The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
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Jan 3rd - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
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U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
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First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
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Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
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First United States Railroad Station opens in Baltimore
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
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First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachuettes with 1 death
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First tax-supported public library in Peterborough, NH.
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The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
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The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
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Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
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Texas approves a constitution and abolishes slavery
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Michigan admitted as 26th US state
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First baseball game played in America
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First recorded bowling event in United States,in knickerbacker, New York.
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The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
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United States Supreme Court rules negros free
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The first child labor law is established in Massachuetts
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THe first wagon train started in Mass. with over 1000 members
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samuel morse taps out the first morse code message
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30th state becomes Winscounsin
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Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first women to earm a medical degree
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Harvard Adversary took the first photo of a star
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1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
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first women became an ordained minister, Anionette Blackwell
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A black college called Lincoln University was chartered
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Michigan State was established
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1st national meeting of Republican Party in Pittsburgh
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National Association of Baseball PLayers founded in New York
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First bank is located in Hawaii
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Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union
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US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
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Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery issued by Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
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General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
