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First English colony is established at Roanoke Island, North Carolina. By 1590, the colony had mysteriously disappeared.
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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America founded by John Smith and the Virginia Company of London.
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative government in the New World is founded in Jamestown.
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The First Thanksgiving is held at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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New Amsterdam, which would later become New York City, is founded.
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Roger Williams establishes the colony of Providence in order to practice a purer form of Christianity. Curiously, he welcomes settlers who practice other religions as well.
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War between Puritan settlers and Wampanoag Indians under Metacom (King Philip) breaks out in Massachusetts in what came to be known as King Philip’s War.
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Fall of Montreal (1760) - The city of Montreal falls to the British led by Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst. The fighting is nearly over in the American colonies.
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1767 – The British parliament passed the Townshend Acts [named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer] which imposed taxes on common products imported to the Colonies like paper, tea and glass. The Colonial assemblies reiterated by condemning taxation without representation.
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The Boston Massacre in 1770, the time when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists resulting to 5 deaths, signaled the outbreak of the American Revolution.