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Jamestown was the first permeant English settlement in North America
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The starving time was between the winter of 1609 and 1610 this was a time of food shortages , fractured leadership , and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors . Which only 60 of the 500 colonists survived .
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The first King James bible was published in London , England . Printed by Robert Barker
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The Dutch use Manhattan as a fur trading center
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Samuel Argall captured the Native American princess in Passapatanzy , Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father .
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In Virginia , Pocahontas marries the English colonizer John Rolfe
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This was a religious war , which mainly took place in the territory of Germany . Problems began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire . The population of German states were decreased by 30 percent , population of the Czech lands declined by a third . The Swedish armies alone destroyed 2,000 castles , 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany .
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Slavery was introduced to the British colonies . The first twenty slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619
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This was the first lawmaking branch in the land controlled by Great Britain in North America
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this battle is one of the 40 battles during the Thirty years war . An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt was defeated by 27,000 men
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The Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod , Massachusetts with 101 colonists
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Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact , this was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory
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Pilgrims celebrate their first successful Harvest in the Fall of 1621 by firing guns and cannons in Plymouth , Massachusetts
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First Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown , Virginia where 347 people were killed
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the first American temperance law enacted in Virginia , this was to control alcohol consumption
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Henry Spelman (an English adventurer) and 19 men who were with him were killed by Nacotchanks . The Natives seized their weapons and armor
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main causes were that King Charles' need for more money , the second would be religion due to King Charles' dislike of both the Puritans and the Catholics , last was the fight between Parliament and King Charles'
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This was the first battle of the English Civil War , both the King and Parliament raised large armies to gain their way by force of arms
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This was the largest battle of the English Civil War and marked a huge turning point , the victory handed York and the north to Parliament
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this was the last battle of the English Civil War , a decisive victory of the Parliamentarians under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell over the royalists under King Charles l and his nephew Prince Rupert of the Rhine .
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The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended the war , the map of Europe had been changed afterwards , the treaty was between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand lll and King Louis XIV of France the treaty was placed for sovereignty by drastically limiting the power of The Holy Roman Emperor
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The act required that most imports to the colonies must be transported through England on English ships
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this was crafted by King Charles ll , the act was written for the purpose of increasing revenues from colonial trade for the crown and the other parties involed
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Pennsylvania is founded by Quaker , William Penn
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King James begins consolidating colonies of New England into a single Dominion
