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Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement was found in Jamestown, Virginia -
Shakespeare
He dies on his 52nd birthday -
First slaves
The first enslaved Africans arrive in North America at Jamestown -
Mayflower
The pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth -
John Smith
John Smith pubilishes the General History of Virginia -
William Bradford
He describes his journey across the Atlantic and pilgrims settlement in Of Plymouth Plantation -
First school
North America's first school is founded in Boston -
Anne Bradstreet's poem
poem collected as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America, are published in London -
Dutch
The Dutch found Cape Town in the southern tip of South Africa -
Victory
The puritans victory in King Philips war ends Native American resistance in New England colonies -
Newspaper
The first Boston Newsletter by African Americans in published -
Peter
Peter the Great, czar of Russia, dies -
Jonathan Swift
Publishes Gullivers Travels -
Boston Tea Party
Marks a violent rejection of Britains taxation policies. The Revolutionary War begins two years later -
book published
The classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber is published
