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1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.
United States: The original settlement was the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States. 1634: Trois-Rivières: Quebec: Canada: 1634: Willemstad: Curaçao: Kingdom of the Netherlands: Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, now a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: 1635 Hingham: Massachusetts United States
1607 – Founding of the Jamestown Settlement. Attempted colony at Sagadahoc fails. 1608 – Founding of Quebec City by Samuel de Champlain. 1609–10 – The Starving Time at Jamestown. [1] 1609 – Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River. 1610- First English settlement in Newfoundland; 1611–16 – Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as ...
Alarmed, the United States offered to buy New Orleans. Napoleon needed funds to wage another war with Great Britain, and he doubted that France could defend such a huge and distant territory. He therefore offered to sell all of Louisiana for $15 million. The United States completed the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, doubling the size of the nation ...
c. 1100 – Oraibi was founded the year of 1128 CE, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements within the United States. [3] [4] c. 1100-1200 – Cahokia near modern-day St. Louis reaches its apex population; c. 1190 – Construction begins on the Cliff Palace by Ancestral Puebloans in modern-day Colorado
Spanish historical and territorial presence in North America. During the early period of exploration, conquest, and settlement, c. 1492–1550, the overseas possessions claimed by Spain were only loosely controlled by the crown. With the conquests of the Aztecs and the Incas, the New World now commanded the crown's attention.
It was the largest city in North America in the 12th century. [19] 1150–1350: Ancestral Pueblo people are in their Pueblo III Period; 1200: Construction begins on the Grand Village of the Natchez near Natchez, Mississippi. This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century. [20]
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...