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Colonial Timeline
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1492
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Christopher Columbus tries to find a sea route to Asia and lands on the island of San Salvador.
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1497
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John Cabot is the first explorer send by England to reach the New World.
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1540
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Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado fails to find the seven cities of gold, but claims the southwest for Spain.
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1585
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Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony in North America on Roanoke Island (The Lost Colony)
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1607
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The first permament English colony established at Jamestown.
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1608
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Samuel de Champlain established the French settlement of Quebec
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1620
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Pilgrims, hoping to escape religious persecution, land in Plymouth (Massachusetts)
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1630
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Puritans, trying to escape religious persecution in England, establish the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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1681
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Quakers under Willliam Penn are given land to establish a colony (Pennsylvania)
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1682
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Robert LaSalle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi and claims the huge Mississippi River Valley for France.
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1732
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Georgia, the last of the 13 colonies was settled by people who had been in debtors' prison in England.
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