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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage and discovers America.
Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from his home Spain, in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He needed and wanted to find a direct route on boat west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he found the Americas. He went on his boat "La Santa Maria." -
The Roanoke Colony was Founded
The Roanoke Island colony was the first English settlement in the New World. It was founded by an English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in August 1585. Soon later it disappeared and was called "The Lost Colony." -
Jamestown Settlement was established
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. They picked Jamestown. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
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"Starving Time
“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when there was almost no food, the leadership was tired, and an attack by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort. -
The Plymouth Colony is Founded
The Plymouth Colony was the first colonial settlement in New England. They shipped on the boat "The Mayflower" and reached land and called it "Plymouth Rock." -
Puritans found the city of Boston
Boston was founded in 1630 by English Puritans fleeing religious persecution. On the 29th of March in 1630 a fleet of 11 ships carrying 700 people sailed from England to Massachusetts (Boston). -
The Quakers arrive in New England
When the Quakers first arrived in the region in 1656. They presented both a radical alternative and a significant challenge to Puritans. -
The province of New York
The English captured the people from the New Netherlands and names it the province of New York. The city of Amsterdam is renamed and called New York -
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King Phillip's War
King Philip's War destroyed homes of families and communities. It took decades for the colonists to recover from the loss of life, the property damage and the huge military expenditures. The war was horrible for native people -
The first settlers arrive in Georgia
On November of 1732, 114 people left from the River "Thames" to settle on Britain's new colony of Georgia.