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Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain fund Chris Columbus's expedition to find a quicker route to Asia.
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Syphilis spreads to Europe from Americas
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Christopher Columbus lands in Puerto Rico
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Calvinism is BORN
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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
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The English destroy the Spanish Armada, securing themselves as the world's dominant power.
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Jamestown becomes the first permanent English settlement
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John Rolfe perfects his way of cultivating tobacco
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The Dutch found New York as a colony in the New World
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The first Native American and settler war begins and is ended in a truce conducted by John Rolfe with the marriage of Pocahontas
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The Mayflower Compact is signed, 101 colonists agree to abide by majority rule in New World
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New Hampshire becomes a colony, and is founded by John Mason and others
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F. Gorges founds Maine
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James I revokes charter for Virginia, and Virginia becomes a royal colony
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Virginia becomes a royal colony
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Puritans colonize and become a colony in 1628
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Lord Baltimore founds Maryland
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Massachussetts immigrants emigrate to Connecticut after religious persecution
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R. Williams founds Rhode Island
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The Swedes found Delaware
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The House of Burgesses is formed in Virginia, the first instance of self-government in the Americas
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Virginians flee Virginnia and found North Carolina after it splits off from Carolina
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England lays claim to Jamaica and acquires it.
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The Navigation Act is signed by King Charles II, giving England the exclusive right to all of the English Colonies' tobacco and sugar
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Berkeley and Carteret found New Jersey
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Carolina is founded by the Eight Nobles
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Colonist expansionism causes a war between Native Americans and colonists
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New Hampshire becomes a royal colony
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania
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Powhatans have been thoroughly wiped out by Europeans and decided extinct
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New York becomes a royal colony
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Massachusetts becomes a royal colony
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Salem Witchcraft trials erupt, 150 men and women accused of witchcraft, 20 of which are executed
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New Jersey becomes a royal colony
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Spanish Florida and English Carolina attack one another
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North and South Carolina split into two colonies
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New Orleans is set up by the French, hence my title.
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North Carolina becomes a royal colony
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Carolina becomes a royal colony
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James Oglethorpe founds Georgia
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Jonathan Edwards begins Great Awakening, and a new religious zeal begins
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