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Timeline of historical and literary events

  • Sep 6, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    The beginning of Christopher Columbus's first writings/journals and letters that recounted his four voyages to America,
  • Sep 6, 1542

    Alvar Nunez

    Alvar Nunez
    The report by Alvar Nunez, Caveza de Vaca, La Relacino, describing the landscape and people he encountered as well as animals that were new to Europeans.
  • New Found Island

    New Found Island
    A brief and true report of the New Found Land of virginia by: Thomas Hrriot, was published.
  • Puritans

    Many settlelers were puritans
  • Jamestown

    The first colony was established here, in Jamestown.
  • First Parliment

    The first parliment colony was established in Jamestown
  • William Bradford

    William Bradford describes his journey across the Atlantic and Pilgrims settlement in of plymouth plantation.
  • Native Americans

    Native americans took the first ship, they saw for a walking island.
  • Fist Book

    Bay Psalm Book, was the first book issued in the North American colonies.
  • Bay Psalm

    Bay Psalm book is the first book to be printed in America
  • Anne Bradstreets

    Ann =e Braddstreet's book of poetry, the Tenth Muse Lately Spirng up in America, was the first work by a Nothern American woman, to be published.
  • Enlighment

    Enlighment ideals and puritan values contributed to the countrys thirst for independence.
  • The English Colonies

    Englsih colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast.
  • french and indian

    The French and indian war started this year and ended in 1763
  • The Revolutionary War

    The Clonies declared themselves free and independent, they fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on earth to turn their declararion into a relity.