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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
1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1] 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India. ca. 1500 – First African slaves taken to Hispaniola. 1513 – Ponce de León in Florida.
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.
1508 – First European colony and oldest known European settlement in a United States territory is founded at Caparra, Puerto Rico, by Ponce de Leon. 1512 – Laws of Burgos; 1513 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees the Pacific Ocean. 1513 – Juan Ponce de León defeats Tlaxcala, a small state neighboring the Aztec Empire.
Early Puritan settlers believed that it was necessary to study the Bible, so children were taught to read at an early age. It was also required that each town pay for a primary school. About 10 percent enjoyed secondary schooling and funded grammar schools in larger towns.
The first successful Spanish settlement in continental North America was Veracruz founded by Hernán Cortés in 1519, followed by many other settlements in colonial New Spain, including Spanish Florida, Central America, New Mexico, and later California. The Spanish claimed all of North and South America (with the exception of Brazil), and no ...
The first voyages were made by Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, with settlement beginning after 1743. By the 1790s the first permanent settlements were established. Explorations continued down the Pacific coast of North America, and Russia established a settlement in the early nineteenth century at what is now called Fort Ross, California.
The Province of Carolina was the second attempted English settlement south of Virginia, the first being the failed attempt at Roanoke. It was a private venture, financed by a group of English Lords Proprietors who obtained a Royal Charter to the Carolinas in 1663, hoping that a new colony in the south would become profitable like Jamestown.