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When King Henry IV converted to Roman Catholicism, Many catholic Zealots were not convinced of his sincerity. He recognized the Civil Rights of Protestants, but despite his efforts, neither protestants nor Catholics were pleased. He was assassinated because François Ravaillac saw his decision to support protestant forces as an act against god. -
European enslavement reaches America -
The Jamestown Massacre of 1622 was an attack by tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy. This was done in an effort to
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The first college in the American colonies is founded
Great and General Court of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England approves a school later to be called Harvard. -
The Constitution of the General assembly of Rhode Island is drafted, promoting separation of church and state.
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The Taj Mahal houses Mughal empereor Shah Jahan and was built for his favorite wife -
John Lederer was the first European to chart and map the Blue Ridge mountains, Allegheny River and Shenandoah Valley. Giving colonists a better understanding of the Interior. -
The city of present day Charleston was founded -
La Salle canoed down the Mississippi River starting at the mouth of the Illinois and ending up in the Gulf of Mexico
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Roughly 30 people were accused of witchcraft and killed. -
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Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston Massachusets
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Edward Teach is shot and stabbed on Ocracoke a barrier island in The Province of North Carolina -
Famine in Ireland Kills nearly 10% of pop
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The population of the 13 Colonies is roughly 1.5 Million
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George becomes King under the principle of divine right of kings
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British Troops in Boston kill 5 civilians, Crispus Attucks becomes the first casualty of the American Revolution -
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Colonies Declare Independence from Great Britain and Decide to call themselves the United States of America
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Claude de Jouffrey invents the first steam boat. -
Eli Whitney invents a machine that is capable of getting the seeds out of cotton, which leads to a dramatic increase in slavery across the United States -
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Thomas Jefferson made the greatest deal of all time claiming the Louisiana Territory for the United States for the sum of 15 million dollars
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The United States Declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britian -
The Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico -
John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States upon the death of President William Henry Harrison.
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The American Civil war begins with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter -
General Robert E. Lee Surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox Court house -
Lincoln is Assinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Boothe, an actor, and Confederate Sympathizer. -
The thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery in in the United States
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A ceremonial golden Spike is driven to connect the Central Pacifica railroad from Sacramento to the Union Pacifica Railroad -
Alexander Graham Bell has was awarded a patent for the invention of the telephone