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Chris Columbus lands on an island in the Bahamas, in an attempt to arrive at Japan. He names it "San Salvador". He is credited to discovering the "new world".
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Spain and Portugal decides to split the West. Spain got most of South America, and Portugal got Brazil.
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In the midst of his search for The fountain of youth, Juan Ponce de Leon explores current day Florida.
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Spanish Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded St. Augustine.
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Francis Drake makes a voyage around the globe from 1577-1580. One year later he was knighted
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Founded by an expidition organized by Sir Walter Raleigh during his attempt to colonize the area of Virginia and North Carolina.
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Jamestown is landed on by explorers from the Virginia company. It becomes the first permanent English settlement in the "new word".
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While tobacco has been discovered long before 1609, John Rolfe is the first one of the colonist to sucessfully cultivate it. When Europe was introduced to Tobacco, it quickly started to have a high demand.
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De le warr sends seventy men to attack the a Paspahegh capitol, burning houses and cutting down cornfields.
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John Rolfe marries Pocahontas five years after John Smith leaves the colony. It helps establish a peace once again with the Native Americans.
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Pilgrims land near the site of modern Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod before moving to Plymouth.
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Second Anglo-powhatan war started because of The Indian Massacre of 1622. A third of the colony were wiped out in a day.
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Revolt staged by the pueblo indians. They fought against the imposition of religion. Also known as Pope's rebellion.
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The providence of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn.
