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The first permanent English settlement was found in Jamestown, Virginia
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He dies on his 52nd birthday
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The first enslaved Africans arrive in North America at Jamestown
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The pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth
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John Smith pubilishes the General History of Virginia
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He describes his journey across the Atlantic and pilgrims settlement in Of Plymouth Plantation
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North America's first school is founded in Boston
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poem collected as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America, are published in London
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The Dutch found Cape Town in the southern tip of South Africa
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The puritans victory in King Philips war ends Native American resistance in New England colonies
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The first Boston Newsletter by African Americans in published
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Peter the Great, czar of Russia, dies
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Publishes Gullivers Travels
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Marks a violent rejection of Britains taxation policies. The Revolutionary War begins two years later
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The classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber is published
