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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



HISTORY OF AMERICA 



1400 



1500 



1600 



17OO 



985. The Icelandic discovery. Leif Erikson and the Northmen. 



92. Columbus discovers the island of Guanahani, of the Bahamas, which he names San Salvador, 



Oct. 12. He discovers Cuba, Oct. 28 ; Hayti, Dec. 6. 

 97. Cabot discovers Labrador. 89. Amerigo Vespucci's voyage. 



1. Negro slaves imported into Hispaniola. 6. Death of Columbus. 



13. Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean. 21. Cortez conquers Mexico. 28. Narvaez visits Florida. 

 34. Cartier explores the St. Lawrence. 41. De Soto conquers Louisiana. 



44. De Soto discovers the Mississippi. 64. The Huguenots in Florida. 



65. St. Augustine, in Florida, founded by the Spaniards. 

 85. First settlement, at Roanoke Island, founded by Walter Raleigh, a failure. 



The Colonies 



1607. Settlement at Jamestown. 



9. Hendrik Hudson discovers the 

 Hudson River. 



20. The Puritans land at Plymouth 

 Rock. 



27. Settlement by Swedes and 

 Finns at Cape Henlopen. 



34. Maryland granted to Lord 

 Baltimore. 



SsTSettlement by English at 

 drow, Hartford, and Wethers- 

 lield. 



36. Settlements by English, under 

 Roger Williams, at Providence. 



64. Elizabethtown settled. 



65. Clarendon Colony settlement. 



70. First settlement, English, 

 Ashle^River. 



82. First settlement in Pennsvl- 

 vania by English under William 

 Penn. 



33. English settlement, under 

 Oglethorpe, at Savannah. 



41. New Hampshire separated 

 from Massachusetts. 



Virginia 



New York 



Massachusetts 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Connecticut 



Rhode Island 



New Jersey 



]?fortfl Carolina 



South Carolina 



Pennsylvania 



Georgia 



New Hampshire 



14. New Amsterdam (now New 

 York City), settled by the Dutch 



20. Dutch vessel, with first negnT 



slaves, enters James River. 

 30^ Boston founded. 



38. Peter Minuit at Christina, 



34. Settlement by English 

 Catholics at St. Mary's. 



(First settlement by Dutch, 

 at Bergen, 1620.) 



80. Charleston founded. 



867 Odious administration of Sir~~ 



Edmond Andros. 

 JiS^King William's War. 



2. Queen Anne's War. 



(First settlement in New Hamp- 

 shire, Eng., Little Harbor, 1623.) 

 44. King George's War. 



54. French and Indian War. 



55. Braddock's defeat. 



Kentucky settled by Daniel Boone. 



58. Fort Du Quesne taken by Washington. 

 63. France cedes Canada to England. 

 65. Colonial Congress at New York resists the stamp act. 66. Stamp act repealed. 



67. Tax on tea. 68. General Gage sent to Boston. 



70. Boston Massacre. Repeal of the duties on tea. 73. Destruction of tea in Boston harbor. 



74. First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia, Sept. 5. Issues declaration of rights, Nov. 4 



75. Revolutionary "War begins with battle of Lexington. Battle of Bunker Hill. 



76. Declaration of Independence. 



77. Lafayette joins the Americans. Federal government adopted by Congress and recognized by 

 France. Battle of Princeton. Battle of Brandy wine. Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga. 



78. Battle of Monmouth. 



81. Battle of Cowpens. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown. 

 83. Treaty of peace. 86. Cotton introduced into Georgia. 



87. The Constitution adopted. 

 88. The Constitution of the UNITED STATES ratified by eleven States. 



