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Raleigh’s Roanoke Island VIRGINIA. Colony
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In Europe, the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English results in Great Britain replacing Spain as the dominant world power and leads to a gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World and the widening of English imperial interests
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settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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A Dutch trading post is set up on lower Manhattan Island.
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Puritans running away from Europe: They had been expelled from England by King james I, and were pursued in most other countries at that time because their thoughts were too radical at that moment
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In March, John Winthrop leads a Puritan migration of 900 colonists to Massachusetts Bay, where he will serve as the first governor. In September, Boston is officially established and serves as the site of Winthrop's government.
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Pennsylvania is founded as William Penn, a Quaker, receives a Royal charter with a large land grant from King Charles II
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William and Mary of Orange become King and Queen of England. In April, New England Governor Andros is jailed by rebellious colonists in Boston. In July, the English government orders Andros to be returned to England to stand trial.
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In New York, the newly appointed Governor of New England, Henry Sloughter, arrives from England and institutes royally sanctioned representative government. In October, Massachusetts gets a new royal charter which includes government by a royal governor and a governor's council.
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Queen Anne's War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht.
