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Queen Elizabeth's death
Queen Elizabeth died. -
Jamestown
Three ships (the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery) sailed 40 miles up the James River to Virginia. It was the first place they established in the New World. -
Pocahontas
Pocahontas (Chief Powhatan's daughter) saved Captain John Smiths life when he was captured and sentenced to death. -
Established Santa Fe
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
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First tobacco crop
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Thirty Years' War
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First African slaves arrived in British North America
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Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses
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Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower
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Cornelis Drebbel invents a human-powered submarine
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Native American Massacre
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Pequot War
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Governor Kieft’s War
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Puritan Revoloution
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Esopus Wars
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King Philip’s War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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Monmouth's Rebllion
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Glorious Revolution