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The first fur trade station was established in New France in 1608.
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Santa Fe was the first permanent settlement in Spain
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The Netherlands chartered the Dutch West India Company in 1621.
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Peter Minuit buys Manhatten from the Munsee people.
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First African Marriage in 1641
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500 enslaved Africans in the colony by 1650.
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The French Protestants emigrated after France criminalized Protestantism in 1685.
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85,000 White Colonists remained in Chesapeake in 1700.