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1600-1700
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1600-1690 Wars
Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
Kalmar War (1611–13)
Thirty Years' War (1618–48)
Powhatan War (1622–44)
Bishops' Wars (1639; 1640)
English Civil Wars (1642–51)
First Northern War (1655–60)
War of Devolution (1667–68)
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Bartholomew Gosnold
Bartholomew Gosnold attempts to colonize New England for Great Britain with establishment of the Cuttyhunk Colony. -
Pierre Dugua attempt
Pierre Dugua sails toward establishment of early New France settlement at St. Croix Island in territory of today's Maine, but the colony fails. -
Jamestown establishment
The three ships land in Jamestown, establishing the first English settlement in the United States. There are 103 settlers among them. Upon arrival, Captain John Smith is named to the governing council. -
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Jaun Martinez de Montoya
Juan Martinez de Montoya founds the settlement of Santa Fe, the second oldest Spanish city of New Spain in North America. -
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1610-1614
August 2, 1610 - Explorer Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay for the Dutch, searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient. May 12, 1611 - King James version of the Bible published for the first time.
April 5, 1614 - The history of Jamestown continues with the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe, who would bring tobacco seeds to the colony and begin its harvesting this year. -
William Shakespeare
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Smallpox epidemic
Smallpox epidemic wipes out 90% of the Native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area. -
Puritans Expedition
The Puritan expedition which left England for the New World on September 6, reaches Cape Cod near Provincetown, not their original destination of Virginia. They explore the coastline for an appropriate settlement location. -
Winthrop Vessel
The first vessels of Winthrop's eleven ship fleet, eventually totaling seven hundred aboard, leaves England for the Puritan colony already established in Salem, establishing the foundation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
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1640
1640 - The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book.
April 21, 1648 - Maryland passes the Maryland Toleration Act, allowing freedom of religion. -
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Slavery
1650 - Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and recognized in the American colonies. -
Issac Newtom
Isaac Newton's experiments with gravity. The English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch. The city is renamed New York. -
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1699
French settlers move into Mississippi and Louisiana.