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1000 BCE
Viking explorer Leif Erikson discovered America
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1492
Christopher Columbus, financed by Spain, makes the first of four voyages to the New World. He lands in the Bahamas.
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1513
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León lands on the coast of Florida.
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1543
Spain Claimed the Pacific North West
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1579
Sir Francis Drake claimed Washington coast for England
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Juan de Fuca discovered Strait of Juan de Fuca
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The Virginia Company founded a colony at Jamestown
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Colonial planter, John Rolfe, brings tobacco to Virginia
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Virginia founds first colonial legislative assembly, the House of Burgesses
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Dutch establish colonists at New Netherlands in present day New York
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The British capture New Netherland from the Dutch and rename it New York.
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