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1492
Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas
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1513
Juan Ponce de Leon lands on the Florida Peninsula
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1515
Vasco Nunez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean
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1540
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explores the Southwest
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1565
Pedro Menendez founded the first permanent settlement in the United States: Saint Augustine, Florida
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The English Colony at Roanoke Island disappeared; it was known as the Lost Colony
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Iroquois Confederacy established to stop warfare among the five nations
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First permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia
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Captain John Smith writes a True Relation of Virginia
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Harvard College is founded in Massachusetts
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First printing press arrives in America
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The first book was printed in the colonies: The Bay Psalm Book
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Massachusetts establishes free public schools
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Anne Bradstreet's collection of poems was published: The Tenth Muse
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King Philip starts raiding New England
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The Salem Witchcraft Trials resulted in the execution of 20 people
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John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel, this furthered freedom of press
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The Great Awakening began to sweep the colonies
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Jonathan Edwards first delivers his sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
