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1491
Pre-Columbus, Native Americans untouched by European contact
1492
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain
1534
Cartier (french explorer) journeys up the St. Lawrence River
1603
Champlain established fur trade in New France
1608
Chaplain created colonial Quebec
1511
First Spanish settlement in Cuba
1521
Cortez conquered the Mexica (Aztecs)
1585
Sir Walter Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island
1607
Jamestown, the first, permanent, English settlement was founded.
1620
Plymouth colony established by English Separatists (Pilgrims)
1630
Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1619
First Africans arrive in Jamestown & Virginia House of Burgesses established
1680
Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico
1609-1610
"Starving time" in Virginia
1663
Founding of Carolina Colony
1681
William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony (Quaker refuge)
1632
Maryland (as a Catholic refuge) founded by Lord Baltimore
1739
Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
1730s-1740s
First Great Awakening
1741
Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
1754-63
French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)
1676
Bacon's Rebellion