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The first permanent English settlement was established.
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The start of Protestants revolting against the Catholic oppression marked the beginning of the Thirty Years War
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The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown
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The first representative assembly in America met for the first time in Virginia.
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Pilgrims from England arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower
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Isaac Newton started experimenting with gravity
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French settlers moved to Mississippi from Louisiana