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Captain Bartholomew Gosnold is the first Englishman to land on the New England coast, exploring and naming Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. -
The first permanent settlement in the new colonies was established by the London Company -
Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River and Delaware Bay for the Dutch. -
The people of James Town were starving
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Smallpox kills roughly 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians.
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The House of Burgess meets for the first time -
The Plymouth Colony is established by the Pilgrim's and the Mayflower Compact is signed -
Indian massacre of 1622 in Virginia. -
King James I revokes the Virginia Company's charter, and Virginia becomes a royal colony. Foundation of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company -
Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony signed. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted and the Crown formally recognizes the Virginia Assembly. -
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The first Quakers arrive in the colonies -
The English takeover New Amsterdam from Dutch control and rename it New York -
Charleston is founded in present day South Carolina -
Bacon's Rebellion took place after Bacon writes the Declaration of the People of Virginia -
William Penn receives a royal charter to establish Pennsylvania -
A series of public executions where women who were thought to be witches were put to death in Salem Virginia