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The first History Timeline covers the Colonial America Time Period from the Jamestown colonists in 1607 and the Pilgrim Fathers arriving at the Plymouth Settlement in the Mayflower, with the Mayflower Compact and the establishment of the first of the 13 English Colonies
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The fist permanent English colony is founded in Jamestown, Virginia.
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The Dutch Ship carried 20 blacks to Virginia. We now know that these were not the first blacks to arrive in Virginia.
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The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 adult males in Provincetown Harbor, Mass., represents the first agreement on self-government in English North America.
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Indian attacks kill one-third of the English settlers in Virginia.
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John Smith publishes his General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, which describes his rescue by Pocahontas.
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Charles I grants Lord Baltimore territory north of the Potomac River, which will become Maryland. Because the royal charter did not restrict settlement to Protestants, Catholics could settle in the colony.
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Massachusetts forbids the celebration of Christmas.
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1702 (1702-1713) Queen Anne's War (part of the French and Indian Wars)
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Massachusetts prohibits marriages between whites and blacks.
