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The Virginia Company is established with the hopes of discovering riches in North America.
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The Virginia Company sends three ships to North America and founds Jamestown, Virginia.
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The first permanent settlement in the Southwest is established by the Spanish.
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John Rolfe plants the first tobacco plants in Jamestown.
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Pilgrims sail to America and found the Plymouth Colony.
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Peter Minuit, a Dutchman, purchases Manhattan island from the Munsee Indians and establishes New Amsterdam.
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Charles I creates a new colony North of the Chesapeake Bay and names it after Queen Mary.
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Thomas Hooker leads about 100 to found the settlement of Newtown, Connecticut.
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Puritans in New England venture into Native American inhabited territory and burn Pequot villages.
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Britain invades New Netherlands and renames the colony New York.
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Metacom leads Native Americans against British colonists.
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A feud over the debts owed between a white colonist and a Native American escalate into a war between the Susquehannock Indians and colonists from Virginia and Maryland. Nathaniel Bacon, dissatisfied with Virginia's response to the war, forms a militia and takes control of the Virginia government for a short period.
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Wiliam of Orange (a Protestant) forces James I (a Catholic) out of the British throne and becomes King, cementing Protestantism in England and her colonies.