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Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe reach Roanoke Island
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John White founded Raleigh, North Caolina
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Bath is incorporated as North Carolina's first town in the North Carolina colony
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North Carolina becomes a colony
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Indian confederation came close to wiping out white settlements in their area
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Blackbeard is killed at Teach's Hole near Ocracoke
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Edenton is incorporated as North Carolina's first capital of the North Carolina colony
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North Caolina becomes a royal english colony
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Tryon Palace is built in New Bern
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Mecklenburg Declaration is signed in Charlotte decalaring independence from Great Britian
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North Carolina adopts the Halifax Resolves calling for independence from England
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North Carolina was amitted to the Union
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John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
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Cherokee indian reservation is established in western North Carolina
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The Wright brothers are the first to build and fly an airplane
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North Carolina becomes the first southern state to adopt statewide prohibition
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Congress establishes Fort Brag near Fayetteville
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The cape lookout national seashore is established
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Elizabeth Doles is elected into the North Carolina state senate.
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North Carolina becomes the fourth fastest growing state in the U.S.A.