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TIMELINE 1493- Columbus colonizes Hispaniola 1497- Cabot sails to North America 1508- Ponce de Le'on explores Puerto Rico 1517- Reformation begins 1521- Cortes conquers Mexico 1524- Verrazano searches for a Northwest Passage to Asia 1528- Narvaez expedition begins 1535- Cartier explores the St. Lawrence River 1541- De Soto reaches Mississippi River 1565- St. Augustine, Florida, established 1585- First English settlement at Roanoke 1588- Spanish Armada defeated 1607- Jamestown founded 1609- Santa Fe founded 1610- Henry Hudson reaches Hudson Bay 1619- House of Burgesses established 1620- Pilgrims settle Plymouth 1630- Great Migration begins 1634- Maryland founded 1651- First Navigation Act 1664- English seize New Netherland 1673- Marquette and Joliet explore the Mississippi 1676- Bacon's Rebellion 1680-Pueblo Indians force Spanish from New Mexico 1682- La Salle reaches the Gulf of Mexico 1682- Pennsylvania founded 1688-Glorios Revolution in England 1689-English Bill of Rights 1689-King William's War begins 1692- Salem Witchcraft Trials 1718- New Orleans founded 1732- Georgia founded 1735- Zenger trial 1740- Great awaking 1754- Albany Plan of Union rejected 1756- Seven Years' War begins 1759- British capture Quebec 1763- Treaty of Paris 1763- Proclaimation of 1763 1765- Stamp Act passed 7167- Townshend Acts passed 1770- Boston Massaccre 1773- Boston Tea Party 1774- Intolerable Acts passed 1774- First Continental Congress 1775- Battles of Lexington and Congress 1775- Second Continental Congress 1776- Declaration of Independence adopted 1776- Battle of Trenton 1777- Battle of Princeton 1777- Battle of Saratoga 1778- France joins the war 1779- Spain joins the war 1780- British capture Charleston 1781- Articals of Confederation adopted 1781- Battle of Yorktown 1783- Treaty of Paris 1785- Ordinance of 1785 1787- Northwest Ordinance 59 EVENTS!!!
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