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After three ships docked in the Jamestown area, they established the first English settlement in the United States.
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Samuel Champlain battles an Iroquois party in his exploration of the New World, and discovers Lake Champlain.
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John Rolfe and Pocahontas get married in Jamestown, John brings tobacco seeds to Pocahontas' colony.
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Smallpox epidemic wipes out 90% of the Native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area.
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This is when the first permanent mission was made in San Bernardino. It was established at Awátobi in 1629.
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The first vessels of Winthrop's eleven ship fleet, eventually totaling seven hundred aboard, leaves England for the Puritan colony already established in Salem, this is the place where the Salem Witch Trials happens later on in the 1600's.
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Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony promoting religious tolerance.
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Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book.
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Witchcraft is made a capital crime in English law.
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Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and recognized in the American colonies.
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Peach Tree War begins with attack on New Amsterdam and Pavonia along Hudson (North) River by Susquehannock Indians
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A large hurricane ravages southeast Virginia, with twelve days of rain, causing damage to plantation homes and crops.
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explore midwest states along the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to the Arkansas River.
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The Indian War between the Narragansett Indians and the colonists in New England ends.
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The colony of Pennsylvania is established when William Penn signs a treaty with the Delaware Indians and pays for Pennsylvania lands.
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The Plymouth colony, which had remained independent since its founding in 1620, joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Additional French settlements would be established in Mississippi and Louisiana.