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Magellan Sets off From Spain to go Around the World
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Moctezuma is killed by the Spanish in Tenochtitlan
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Pizarro promises to relese Atahualpa if his people fill a room with gold. When they did, Pizarro kills Atahualpa and leaves the Incas in a confusion.
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Coronado tries to find Cibola(a city made by Saints), but fails even when the natives tell him exactly where to go. Maybe the Natives were lying.
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These people land in Florida to secure gold and silver for the French from Spanish Galleon.
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John white leads the Third Sir.Raleigh financed voyage to Roanoke Island. Roanoke also becomes Englands first PROPER colony (with women and children and everything)
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John White find Roanoke abandoned. Nobody is there. The only thing is a carved message that says 'CRO'
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Three ships sent by the London Company land at Cape Henry, Virgina. Capt. John Smith and others found James Town.
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Henry Hudson sails up the Hudson River
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The 'Starving Time' Begins
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The 'Starving Time' in Jamestown comes to an end, with only 60 of the original 500 surviving.
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The first african slaves arrive in Virginia, and the first representative government of the European colonies begins with Virginia's House of Bergesses
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The Pilgrims sail from England to Cape Cod on the Mayflower. They make a plan of government called the Mayflower Compact.
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Massasoit, leader of the Wampanoag Indians, established peace with the Pilgrims
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The first school in the North American Colonies is founded in Amsterdam.
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King Charles the I is beheaded. Parlament Rules.
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Charles II restored to the English throne. Mary Dyer hung in Massachusetts
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England's 'Glorious Revolution'; King James the II is disposed
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North Carolinians rebel against English Taxes
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Pueblo Indians, led by Pope attach the Spaniards and drive them out of Santa Fe
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania
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Witchcraft trials begin in Salem
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston
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John Peter is aquitted of libel for printing criticism of New York's British govonor.
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The Great Awakening, a religeous revival, begins.
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Col. Washington and 150 Virginians defeat a group of French in an exploratory party in Pennsylvania at the start of the French and Indian war.
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The Colonies reject the 'Albany Plan'
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G.Braddock's British Troops are Defeated by French and Indians
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The Acadians refuse to swear loyalty to Britain and are expelled from Nova Scotia
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The British are victorious at Quebec
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America is won by the british/Johnson adn G.Amherst capture Montreal.
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George the III becomes King of England
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The 'Treaty of Paris' ends the 'Seven Years War'
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The 'Proclomation of 1763' forbids American colonists from settleing west of the Appalachans
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The Stamp Act forces the Colonists to pay taxes on printed matter
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The Sons of Liberty band together against the Stamp Act
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Parlament Repeals the Stamp Act
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Parlament passes the Townshend acts for tea and stuff
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Five Americans are killed in the Boston Massacre
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Britain Blockaids the Boston Harbor Because of the Tea Party Issue
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The Boston Tea Party throws a bunch of tea into Boston Harbor
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Britain Stops Blockaiding the Boston Harbor
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia to Protest and Petition George III
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord
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The Second Continental Congress Meets in Philidelphia and names G.Washington Commander in Chief of the American Forces
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Patriots under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold take Fort Ticonderoga
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Britain Declaires War on America
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The battles of Breed's and Bunker hills in Boston
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Tom Paine Publishes 'Common Sence'
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The Declaration of Independance is signed
