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Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown
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John Smith claims that when captured by Indians and that he was saved from execution by Pocahontas
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Pocahontas is baptized and marries John Rolfe (a Jamestown colonists)
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The Pilgrims, a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world
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Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree on a form of government for their new colony
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The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians
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William Bradford, one of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, is elected governor of the new Plymouth Colony. (William Bradford is my best friends great great great great ((I don't know how many greats)) grandpa)
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French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion
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The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms
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Italian mathematician and physicist Evangelista Torricelli invent the barometer.
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Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton invented a reflecting telescope.
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Isaac Newton's experiments with the prism demonstrate the link between wavelength and color in light
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Parliament in Westminster makes the restrictive Bill of Rights. William III and Mary II are crowned
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Gold is found in Brazil, launching the first great American gold rush