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England’s King James I held a conference to meet with Protestant leaders.
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A company of English merchants asked the Crown for the right to found a new settlement in North America.
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English colonies found the Jamestown settlement in present-day Virginia.
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400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown.
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Only 60 colonists were still alive in Jamestown.
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The first edition of the King James Version of the Bible is published.
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John Rolfe introduced a new variety of tobacco.
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John Rolfe married Pocahontas.
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Pocahontas died while visiting England.
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The first representative assembly in North America is formed in Virginia.
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The first Africans came to Virginia on a Dutch ship.
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A ship called the Mayflower left England with more than 100 men, woman, and children aboard.
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The Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact.
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The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
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England experienced an economic downturn, costing many people their jobs.
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Colonists killed a Powhatan leader.
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The English Crown canceled the London Company’s charter.
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Charles I became king and raised taxes.
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A group of Puritans and merchants began planning a Puritan colony in North America.
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A fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists left England for Massachusetts.
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The Great Migration begins as thousands of people leave England to settle in colonies or other European countries.
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Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Puritans found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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About 200 colonists arrived in Maryland to start a settlement.
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John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College.
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Thomas Hooker helps draft the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
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A growing number of Protestants began moving to Maryland.
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The General Court became a two-house legislature.
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Roger Williams received a charter for his small settlement in Rhode Island.
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King Charles I of England is overthrown and executed.
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Maryland passes the Toleration Act, which promotes religious freedom.
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Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida to eight of his supporters.
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The Duke of New York made Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley proprietors of New Jersey.
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The Hudson Bay Company is formed to trade in the Hudson Bay region of North America.
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Colonial settlement in South Carolina began.
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King Philip’s war began.
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Bacon’s Rebellion begins in Virginia.
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King Philip’s war ends.
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New Hampshire became a royal colony.
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King Charles II agreed to grant William Penn a charter to begin a colony west of New Jersey.
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Peter the Great becomes czar of Russia.
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The Salem witch trials take place in Massachusetts.
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About 70 percent of men and 45 percent of women could read and write.
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East and West Jersey are united into the single royal colony of New Jersey.
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North and South Carolina became separate colonies.
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The British government bought South Carolina from the original proprietors.