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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus first voyage
-Led three ships: Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
-Sailed out of the spanish port of Palos
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Period: Aug 18, 1492 to Aug 18, 1504
The four voyages of Columbus started the European exploration, colonization, and exploitation of the New World
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Aug 18, 1493
Columbus went back to the west Indies
-He took 17 ships and 1,500 soldiers, colonists, and priests
-Forced the local "Indians" to mine gold and took it back to Spain
-Thought he had reached Asia -
May 18, 1497
Cabot tried to reach India
-Claimed Labrador and Newfoundland for England
-Ship named the Mathew -Only carried about 20 poeple on his ship -
Aug 18, 1498
Columbus' thrid voyage
-Discovers South America -
Aug 18, 1499
Vespucci sailed along the Atlantic ocean in search of India
-Explored South America's Northern coast and traveled beyond the mound of the Amazon
-on his second trip he realized he had found an entirely new continent and not India -predicted the earth's circumference within 50 miles -
Aug 18, 1506
Columbus died
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Aug 18, 1507
New world named after Americus Vespucius
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Period: Aug 18, 1510 to Aug 18, 1513
Balboa explored the coast of present day Panama and Traveled across the isthmusto to the pacific ocean
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Aug 19, 1513
Spaniard Ponce de Leon makes landfalll in Florida
-Cousins to Christopher Columbus
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Oct 31, 1517
Protestant Reformtion, led by Martin Luther is launched in Europe
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Aug 18, 1519
Cortes and 500 soldiers set off for Mexico
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Period: Aug 18, 1519 to Aug 18, 1522
Magellan set off the find an atlantic to pacific passage
_Found the passage at the southern tip of South America
-Found the Philipeans but died there because of a local war
-His crew continued without him and became the first to circumnavigate the world -
Period: Aug 18, 1520 to Aug 18, 1530
Pizarro traveled twice to South America
-Saw the riches of the Inca in Peru -
Aug 18, 1524
Verranzzano and Gomez was commissioned to locate a NorthWest passage
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Aug 18, 1528
Cabeza do Vaca explores southern United States
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Aug 18, 1532
Pizarro took an army and captured the Inca ruler: Atahualpa
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Aug 18, 1533
The Spanish conqured the Inca
-Conqured the Aztec empire with the help form their allies the Native Americans and Smallpox -
Aug 18, 1534
Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River as far as present day Montreal
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Aug 18, 1541
Do Soto discovers the Mississippi River
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Aug 18, 1562
Jean Ribault headed an epedition that explored the St. Johns River area in Florida
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Aug 18, 1565
Founding of St. Augustine
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Aug 18, 1567
Drake explores coast of California(unknowingly)
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Aug 18, 1576
Frobisher discovers northwest passage
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Raleigh sends first expedition to America
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The first English settlement, the Roanoke Colony, is established
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Virginia Dare is the first English child born in the Roanoke Colony
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Acadia settled by the French
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Founding of Jamestown, Virginia
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Captain John Smith is captured by the Powhatans at Werowocomoco
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Samuel De Champlain built a fort at Quebec and explored the area North to port Royal, Nova Scotia, and South to Cape Cod
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Hudson's third voyage
-Traveled through the Arctic ocean but redirected SouthWest
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Hudson discovers the Hudson River
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Colonists' plant and harvest native tobacco in Virginia
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During that winter nearly 440 settlers of Jamestown died because of what is known as Starving Time
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The newly formed New Netherland company obtained a grant from the Dutch Government for the territiory between New France and Virginia
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Tobacco farmer John Rolfe marries Pocahontas, daughter of Cheif Powhatan
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First assembly meets at Jamestown
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Coming of the Pilgrims in the "Mayflower"
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The Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth
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The West India Company settled groups of colonists on Manhattan Island and at Fort Orange
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Manhattan Island was bought by Peter Minuit from Native Americans
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The first public school in America was established
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Harvard college in Massachusetts is founded
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Cambridge, massachusetts is where the first colonial printing press is located
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New England makes Slavery legal
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Rhode Island passes the first law within the colonies making SLavery illegal
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Cotton Mather was born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Marquette and Joliet cross Lake Michigan into Wisconsin
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Earliest attacks against colonists begins King Philip's War
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Declaration of the people of Virginia leads to Bacon's Rebellion
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Colonists in North Carolina rebel against taxation by the English
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Pennsylvania is establishedby William Penn
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King William's War starts to spread to the colonies
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Salem Witch trials take place in a village in Massachusetts
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The parliament in England passes the Wool Act
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The Virginia Black Code is passes in Virginia
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Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Act of the Union combines England, Scotland, and Wales as part of the United Kingdom
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Post Office Act passes in the England parliament
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The French establishes New Orleans
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Population at the American colonists number 475,000
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George Washington of Virginia is born
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The first copper coins of the colony were minted in Connecticut
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Delegates from seven colonies met at the Albany Congress
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French and Indian War ends with the signing of the treaty of paris
