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400
Hopewell Culture Flourishes
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Oct 21, 650
Bow and arrow, flint hoes, and northern flint corn in the Northeast
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Oct 21, 775
Hohokam Culture Flourishes
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Oct 21, 1000
Tobacco in use throughout North America
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Oct 21, 1142
Founding of Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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Oct 21, 1150
Founding of Hopi village of Oraibi
(Oldest Occupied Town in North America) -
Oct 21, 1200
High point of Mississippian and Anasazi Cultures
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Oct 21, 1276
Sever drought begins in the Southwest
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Oct 21, 1300
Arrival of Athapascans in the Southwest
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Oct 21, 1347
Black Death in Europe
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Oct 21, 1381
English Peasent's Revolt
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Oct 22, 1441
African Slaves first brought to Portugal
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Oct 21, 1488
Bartolomen Dias sails around the African Continent
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Oct 21, 1492
Christopher Columbus first arrives in the caribbean
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Oct 21, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Oct 21, 1500
High point of Renaissance
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Oct 21, 1508
Spanish Invade Puerto Rico
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Oct 21, 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida
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Oct 21, 1514
Bartolome de las Casas beging preaching against conquest of Native Americans
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Oct 21, 1516
Smallpox introduced to the New World
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Oct 21, 1517
Martin Luther breaks with Roman Catholic Church
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Oct 21, 1519
Hernan Cortes' lands in Mexico
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Oct 21, 1534
Jacques Cartier first explores St. Lawrence River
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Oct 21, 1539
Expeditions of:
-Hernan de Soto
-Francisco Vasquez de Coronado -
Oct 21, 1550
Tobacco Introduced to Europe
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Oct 21, 1552
Bartolome de las Casas' Destruction of the Indies published
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Oct 21, 1558
Elizabeth I of England begins her reign
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Oct 22, 1562
Huguenot colony planted along the Mid-Atlantic Coast
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Oct 22, 1565
St. Augustine Founded
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Humphrey Gilbert attempts to plant a colony in Newfoundland
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Walter Raleigh's colony on Roanoke Island
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Englishdefeat the Spanish Armada
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John White returns to find Roanoke Colony abandoned
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Juan de Onate leads Spanish into New Mexico
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English Found Jamestown
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French Found Quebec
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Spanish Found Santa Fe
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First Africans brought to Virginia
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Pilgrim Emigration
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Indian uprising in Virginia
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Jesuit Missionaries arrive in New France
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Puritans settle Massachusetts Bay
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Pequot War
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Charles I Executed
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English seize Jamaca
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Stuart Monarchy restored, Charles II becomes King
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Virginia law makes slavery hereditary
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Royal African company organized
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King Philip's War/Bacon's Rebellion
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Pueblo Revolt
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Robert Sieur de la Salle explores the Mississippi
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The Glorious Revolution
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King William's War
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Virginia prohibits interracial sexual contact
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Spanish re-conquest of pueblos compleated
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Britain opens the slave trade to all its merchants
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Spanish declare Florida a refuge for escaped slaves
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English impose royal government on all colonies
...Except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania -
South Carolinians burn St. Augustine
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Virginia Slave Code established
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French and Spanish navies bombard Charlestown
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English capture Port Royal in Acadia
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Slave uprising in New York City
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Peace of Utrecht
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Robert Walpole leads British Cabinet
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Natchez Rebellion in French Louisiana
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Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
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War of Jenkins Ear begins
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Africans executed in New York for conspiracy
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King Georges War begins
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Importation of Slaves into the United States ends