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Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type.
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Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany
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1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. On this date Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find an alternate route to India.
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Landed on the small island inwhat is now the Bahamas.
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Whiskey invented in Scotland
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John Cabot lands in Newfoundland, beginning the British colonial presence in North America.
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First reported African Slaves in The New World
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Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain.
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Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes at May 2.
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Hernán Cortés leads the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
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Philippines discovered by Ferdinand Magellan. He was later killed in battle in central Philippines in the same year.
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Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland.
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The Church of England breaks away from the Roman Catholic Church and recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the Church.
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Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
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Hernando de Soto explores inland North America.
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Galileo Galilei born on February 15
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Spanish conquistadores apprehend the last Inca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba, Peru, and execute him in Cuzco.
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Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World, in the Virginia Colony.
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Jamestown Settlement is founded by English gold seekers.
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•Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe; Galileo Galilei faces the Inquisition
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First rounding of Cape Horn
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Sir Walter Raleigh executed
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•The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
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First English settlement in New Hampshire
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Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
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Colony of Massachusetts founded
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Colony of Maryland chartered
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South Carolina founded
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Peace treaty between William Penn and North American Indians; Sir Isaac Newton explains his gravitational theories
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Carolina divided into North and South Carolina
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Last remains of the Mayan civilization destroyed by the Spanish in the Yucatan
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To help defray the cost of keeping troops in America, Parliament enacts (March 22) the Stamp Act, imposing a tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies. Seen as a violation of rights, the Act sparks violent demonstrations in several Colonies. Virginia's House of Burgesses adopts (May 29) the Virginia Resolves claiming that, under British law, Virginians could be taxed only by an assembly to which they had elected representatives. Delegates from nine colonies attend the Stamp Act
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This date is when the sons of liberty grouped to gether and raided the British ships and dumped out tons and tons of tea.
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Boston Tea Party
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
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The British surrender at Yorktown
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That stated that the US was now a free country independent of Britain. Signed by founding fathers and was written mostly by thomas jefferson and discussed natural rights and also listed many grievances by the colonists against england.
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Shays' Rebellion
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Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
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