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1504 – Higüey massacre. 1507 – A new world map by Martin Waldseemuller names the continents of the New World "America" in honor of Amerigo Vespucci. 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.
1614 – Peace between the Virginia colony and the Powhatan Confederacy. 1619 – First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses. First Africans in Virginia. 1620 – The Pilgrims found the Plymouth Colony. 1622 – Indian massacre of 1622 in Virginia. 1624 – Virginia Company collapses and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd president of the United States on March 4, 1801. First Barbary War, 1801–1805. The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio is admitted to the Union as the State of Ohio (the 17th state) on March 1, 1803. The United States takes possession of the Louisiana Purchase, December 20, 1803.
t. e. The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization ...
t. e. Timeline of the American Revolution — timeline of the political upheaval culminating in the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies in North America joined together for independence from the British Empire, and after victory in the Revolutionary War combined to form the United States of America. The American Revolution includes ...
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed. After European colonization of North America began in the late 15th century, wars and epidemics decimated indigenous societies. Starting in 1585, the British Empire colonized ...
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time ...
Irving's fictional History of New York published. [7] [37] 1810 – Scudder's American Museum in business. 1811 May 19: Close to 100 buildings burn down on Chatham Street. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 lays out the Manhattan grid between 14th Street and Washington Heights. [7] 1812 – New York City Hall built. [19] 1816 – American Bible ...
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