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The Oregon Country/Columbia District stretched from 42°N to 54°40′N. The most heavily disputed portion is highlighted. The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
Settled by the Dutch as Esopus, renamed in 1664 by the English. 1651: Cap-de-la-Madeleine: Quebec: Canada [24] Became a borough of Trois-Rivières in January 2002. 1651: Medfield: Massachusetts: United States [34] 1651: New Castle: Delaware: United States: Site of Tomakonck, a former native village. Settled by the Dutch as Fort Casimir; renamed ...
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
Settled as Burrangong Station, in Lambing Flat. Gazetted as Young in the 1860s. 1827 Burnie: Tasmania Settled as Emu Bay, renamed in the early 1840s to Burnie after William Burnie. 1827 Oceania House, Home Island: Cocos-Keeling Islands: The islands were uninhabited prior to 1827. They became a territory of Australia in 1955. 1827 Tarago: New ...
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.
Bligh navigated more than 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) in the launch to reach safety and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bounty had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies.
French Huguenots settled in what is now East Greenwich in 1687. On 12 October 1686, an agreement was signed between the following, representing the French settlers and the land owners: On 12 October 1686, an agreement was signed between the following, representing the French settlers and the land owners:
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