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1489
Columbus reaches America
Christopher Columbus Discovers America 1492. Columbus led his three ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3 1492. -
1540
Spanish conquistadors
Many Spanish Conquistadors begin to arrive in the New World. Small Spanish settlements were built on modern day cities such as San Antonio Tuscan Los Angeles and San Fransisco -
13 colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America. -
Revolutionary war
A global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. -
End of revolutionary war
On September 3 1783 the parties signed the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and formally end the war. -
First president
George Washington, known as the was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.
