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The Roanoke Colony is established.
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The Roanoke colony is discovered to have vanished, with the only sign that any humans have ever lived there as the word "Croatoan" - the local Native American tribe - etched on a tree.
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The Jamestown, Virginia colony, which is the first permanent colony in America and also of the original thirteen colonies, is established.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second of the thirteen colonies to be established, hosts the first Thanksgiving.
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The last of the thirteen colonies, the Georgia colony, is established.
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The American Revolutionary War begins officially after its first battle in Lexington and Concord.
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The Declaration of Independence is finished, signed, and accepted.
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The flag of the thirteen colonies, sewn by Betsy Ross, is approved.
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After eight years of fighting, the Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris by people representing both King George and the thirteen colonies.
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The Constitution of the United States is signed and officially passed.
