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1488
Bartolomeu Dias led an exploration from Portugal southward along African coast,discovering the Cape of Good Hope
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1492
Columbus set sail across the Atlantic with 3 ships
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1493
Pope Alexander VI decreed the Line of Demarcation
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1513
Juan Ponce de Leon explored present-day Florida
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1519
Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the world
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1539
Hernando de Soto traveled through Florida and North Carolina
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The colony established at Roanoke by John White
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The Spanish Armada statred
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Jamestown was established
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Mayflower Compact
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Toleration Act started
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Bacon's Rebellion
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The French and Indian War
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Parliament passed the Sugar Act
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Stamp Act Congress
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Boston Massacre
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Parliament passed the Tea Act
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Patriots attacked British at Fort Ticonderoga
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Treaty of Paris
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Louisiana Purchase
