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john smith punblishes The General History of Virginia
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William Bradford describes his journey across the Atlantic and Pilgrims' settlement of Plymouth Plantation.
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Bay Psalm Book is the first book to be printed in America.
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Anne Bradstreet's poems, collected as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, are published in London.
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Dutch found Cape Town on the southern tip of South Africa.
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Mary Rowlandson publishes The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, an account of her captivity at the hands of Algonquian Indians.
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Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae naturalis pricipia mathematica, considered to be the most important work of Scientific Revolution.
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Cotton Mather publishes The Wonders of the Invisible World in defence of the Salem Witch trials.
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Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, known for revitalizing the haiku form, dies.
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The Boston Newsletter, the first American newspaper, is established.
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Johann Sebastion Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos.
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Benjamin Franklin uses humor to criticize the Puritan establishment in his first published work, The Doogood Papers.
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Jonathon Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
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Abigail Adams writes first entry in what is published as Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail.
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Thomas Paine's widely read pamphlet Common Sense passionately argues the case for independence.
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