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August 14 – The Mainz Psalter, the second major book printed with movable type in the West, the first to be wholly finished mechanically (including colour), and the first to carry a printed date, is printed for the Elector of Mainz.
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.
300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
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1 January – Osmund of Salisbury (died 1099) is canonised, the last English saint created until the 20th century. His remains are translated from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral on 23 July.
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List of incidents of civil unrest in Colonial North America; List of North American settlements by year of foundation; Political culture of the United States; Slavery in the colonial United States; Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States; Thirteen Colonies; United Colonies, the name for the emerging nation, 1775–1776 ...
date unknown. Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (approximate date) (d. 1529) Estefania Carròs i de Mur, Spanish educator (approximate date) (d. 1511) Raden Patah, Javanese sultan, founder of the Demak Sultanate (d. 1518) María de Ajofrín, Spanish visionary (d. 1489) Nicholas Barnham, English knight, killed in the War of the Roses (d ...