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Establishment of Jamestown
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First thanksgiving at Plymouth
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William Penn receives a charter for land on which he will found Pennsylvania
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Salem witch trials begin.
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The College of William and Mary is founded
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Yamasee tribes attack and kill several hundred Carolina settlers.
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South Carolina settlers and their Cherokee allies attack and defeat the Yamassee.
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French found New Orleans.
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Birth of George Washington
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War of Jenkin's Ear
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First American repertory acting company established in Philadelphia
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Colonies adopt Benjamin Franklin's "Plan of the Union" of English colonies.
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Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
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The colonial army suffers a serious defeat at the Battle of Long Island.
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City of San Fransico
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After 40 days of siege, General Benjamin Lincoln surrenders Charles Town
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Benedict Arnold and his troops attack and destroy parts of New London, Connecticut.
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First American cotton mill.
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Washington, D. C. established as U. S. capital.
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George Washington dies at Mount Vernon
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United States Military Academy opens at West Point, N. Y.
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. Lewis and Clark expedition sets out down the Ohio River
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Aaron Burr is defeated in his campaign for governor of New York.
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State of Louisiana enters the union.
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Indiana is admitted to the union as a free state.
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James Monroe is inaugurated as fifth president of the U. S.
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Maine added as 23rd state
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Missouri enters union as 24th state, thus balancing the union at 12 slave and 12 free states
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President Monroe presents Monroe Doctrine stating that U.S. will not tolerate European interference in Western Hemisphere.
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Democrat Andrew Jackson is re-elected president
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Texans capture Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto
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Democrat Martin Van Buren is inaugurated president
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The Independent Treasury Act is signed into law by President Martin Van Buren
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The Independent Treasury Act is repealed.
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First gold seekers arrive in San Francisco
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Gadsden Purchase gives the U.S. a strip of land in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.
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First elevator installed by Elisha P. Otis in New York City
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Georgia passes a law forbidding owners from manumitting slaves in their wills.
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Union forces defeated at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia.
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Lincoln signs the Homestead Act
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The Emancipation Proclamation is signed
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Department of Justice is created
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Massachusetts limits women's working days to 10 hours, a significant reform.
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The Great Strike of 1877 begins with railroad workers walking out
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Building of Panama canal begins
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Garfield is shot in the back
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Washington Monument dedicated after 36 years of construction.
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Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York Harbor
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Johnstown (Pennsylvania) flood kills an estimated 5,000 people
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Two hundred Sioux are killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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World's Columbian Exhibition opens in Chicago
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First use of X-rays to treat breast cancer.
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt sends the Pacific fleet to the Philippines
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Annexation of Hawaii.
