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Henry Hudson, sailed for the Dutch East India Company,discovered Delaware Bay and River
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Captain Samuel Argall,names the bay and river after Lord De La Warr,the governor of Virginia.
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Dutch colonists settle at Zwaanendael.
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The Dutch settlement at Zwaanandael is destroyed and all colonists killed in disagreement with Native Americans.
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Peter Minuent leads a group of Swedes to the Delaware and organize Fort Christina, the first permanent settlement on the Delaware and the beginning of the New Sweden Colony.
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The first African in Delaware,Black Anthony, is brought from the Carribean to Fort Christina.
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Johan Printz becomes governor of the New Sweden Colony.
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England seized New Netherland and Delaware beame part of the New York Colony.
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Peter Stuvesant,Dutch governor of New Netherland, builds Fort Casimir ner Fort Christina on Delaware.
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The Dutch wins the the battle between the Swedes in Delaware, ending the new Sweding Colony. Delaware becomes a part of the New Netherland..
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Sir Robert Carr drives the Duch off the Delaware and claims the land for James, Duke of York. Delaware becomes an English Colony.
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The Dutch regain control of Delaware.
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The English regain control of Delaware.
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William Penn accepted land from England, that included Delaware, and estblish the colony of Pennsylvania.
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The Duke of York transferred control of the Delaware Colony to English Quaker William Penn.
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Pirates including captain kidd sail along Delaware
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Delaware's first assembly of the Three Lower Conties Upon Delaware, Seperate from Pennsylvania, meeta at New Castle.
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Nearly 35,000 lived in the Delaware region.
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The French and Indian war ends in 1763 and great Britain gains controls of all lands before they were held by France. England pays for the war increasing taxes on its Colonies Restrictions on the colonists soon led to a fight from the crown.
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Caesr Rodney and Thomas McKean represent Delaware at the stamp Act progress
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Revolutionary war began !
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Three Lower Counties had broken away from Pennsylvania they adopted a constition and became the Delaware State, the first colony to call themselves a state was Delawrare
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Delaware assembly decalres independance from England.
