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Columbus "discovers" the New World
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| 1492 |
Columbus "discovers" the New World
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| 1519 |
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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| 1521 |
Protestant Reformation
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| 1588 |
Spanish Armada defeated
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| 1607 |
Jamestown founded
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| 1619 |
House of Burgesses formed in Virginia
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| 1620 |
Mayflower Compact
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| 1692 |
Salem Witch Trials
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| 1740 |
Great Awakening begins
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| 1763 |
Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War
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| 1765 |
Stamp Act
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| 1770 |
Boston Massacre
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| 1775 |
"The shot heard 'round the world"
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| 1776 |
Declaration of Independence
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