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Sep 8, 1565
European colonization
European colonization in the United States begins by the Spanish. the founding of St. Augustine. -
Jamestown
Jamestown is founded in Virginia by the colonists of the London Company -
Mayflower
the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists. On November 11, the Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men. First form of a local government. -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island because he was kicked out of MA. He had "new and dangerous opinions" about religion and politics. -
Anne Hutchinson
banished from Massachusetts for nonconformist religious views