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Literature Timeline

  • May 3, 1492

    Christian Columbus began his voyages to the Americas

  • A brief and True Report of the New FOund Land of Virginia by Thomas Harriot was Published

  • Samuel de Champlain wrote vivid accounts of New England

  • First Colony Established at Jamestown

  • John Winthrop states we shall be a City upon a hill

  • Native Americans take the first ship they saw

  • First book issued in North American Colonies- Bay Psalm Book

  • First book published by a woman (The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Upon in America)

  • Enlightenment

  • English colonies stretched across the Atlantic Coast

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    French & Indian War

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    Two Thousand Pamplets were published

  • Second Virginia Convention

  • Colonies declared themselves free and independent

  • Constitution was approved