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1682-William Penn establish Pennsylvania
William Penn was going to name it sylvania which mean''woods'' and later called it Pennsylvania. -
1681-king charles II give William Penn land in the New World
He put Penn in front of sylvania. -
1621-Governor William Bradford held a celebration feast.
the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. -
1620-a baby was born on the mayflower
During its historic voyage which brought the English Pilgrims to America. A boy, Peregrine White, was born on board, after arriving in America, as the ship lay at anchor. -
1590-the 1st colony had mysteriously disappeared
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1619-the first elected assembly was established
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1609-Captain Smith returned to England ill
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1607-landed on the banks Virginia's James river
A group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. -
1587-went back to England and found CROATIAN carved on a tree
The English, led by John White and financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, made their second attempt at setting up a colony on Roanoke Island, which now lies just off the coast of North Carolina in the USA. The colonists disappeared, however, during the Anglo-Spanish War. -
1585-Queen Elizabeth allowed Raleigh to send over 100 men from England to Roanoke Island
Queen Elizabeth issued a charter allowing Raleigh to “discover, search, find out, and view such remote heathen and barbarous Lands, Countries, and territories to have, hold, occupy, and enjoy.”
