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The Discovery Channel presents recent research on Christopher Columbus using a DNA test developed for the victims of 9/11. Combined with the fact that Columbus never wrote in Italian, the research concludes that Christopher Columbs was not the Genovese Italian, but rather a Catalan Mercenary who ha ... |
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John Graves Simcoe sails into the Bay of Toronto and establishes a fort and settlement there. |
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Don Joses de Canizares becomes first European to enter the Golden Gate from the sea. |
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English colonists led by James Oglethorpe arrive in Charleston, South Carolina. |
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LaSalle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana. |
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La Salle sails down the Illinois and Mississppi to the Gulf of Mexico and declares all the land Louisianna after King Louis XIV. |
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William Penn granted a charter for Pennsylvania. |
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Spanish commence work on the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine Florida. |
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Henry Morgan, the Pirate, lates at Panama City. |
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103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock. |
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Henry Hudson and the crew of the Half Moon reached the mouth of a wide river, now called the Hudson. Hudson claims the area along the river for the Dutch, who had employed him. |
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Hudson passes Cape Cod. |
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Fearful of a native counterattack, Henry Hudson sails away in the Half Moon at 5 a.m. |
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Henry Hudson and the crew of the Half Moon trade with natives while anchored in George's Harbour. |
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Hudson and the Dutch United East India Company sign their contract for Hudson to search for a northeast passage. |
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Samuel de Champlain shoots two Iroquois chiefs to death near Crown Point, NY. |
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Admiral Sir George Somers commanding the Sea Venture is wrecked off the reefs of Bermuda's Discovery Bay, with no loss of life, and explores, maps, and colonizes the island for the first time. |
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The Half Moon, commanded by Henry Hudson, reaches Newfoundland and sails west-southwest. |
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French explorer Samuel Champlain begins construction of three buildings, two stories tall, surrounded by a moat 15 feet wide and a stockade of stakes, thus founding the city of Quebec. |
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British Colonists who sailed from London with Capt. Christopher Newport and John Smith, establish Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in North America. |
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John White returns to Roanoke Island to find the colony abandoned and the houses "taken downe" and the word "CROATOAN" carved on the palisade that had been built around the settlement site during his absence. Exactly what fate befell the settles remains a mystery to this day. |
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Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White, is born in Roanoke Colony, becoming the first English child born in the Americas. |
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A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to re-establish the colony. The first had returned to England after killing native leader Winginia and running low on supplies. |
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Martin Frobisher's third expedition reaches Baffin Island. |
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Martin Frobisher departs Harwich, England with fifteen ships on a third expedition to North America in search of gold at Frobisher Bay. The ore returned would be worthless and used to pave the streets of London. |
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Frobisher's second expedition reaches Hall's Island at the mouth of Frobisher Bay. The area is taken possession in the name of Queen Elizabeth I. |
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Frobisher's second expedition departs Blackwall with the ships Aid, Gabriel and Michael, boats, pinnaces and 120 men, including miners, and refiners. |
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The Gabriel, in a ship convoy commanded by Martin Frobisher, sights the coast of Labrador. |
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The city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, is founded by Don Diego de Losada. |
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French explorer Jean Ribault lands at the northern tip of Anastasia Island. |
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