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1496: Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement, is built. [7] 1497: John Cabot reaches Newfoundland. [8] 1498: In his third voyage, Columbus reaches Trinidad and Tobago. 1498: La Isabela is abandoned by the Spanish. 1499: João Fernandes Lavrador maps Labrador and Newfoundland
First permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory: 1788: Cincinnati: Ohio: United States 1788: Charleston: West Virginia: United States: Expanded from Fort Lee [58] 1789 Santa Cruz de Nuca: British Columbia: Canada First European settlement in British Columbia; only Spanish settlement in Canada 1790: Hamilton: Bermuda: United ...
Founded in 1496, the city is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the New World. Cumaná, Venezuela. Founded in 1510, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the continental Americas. There were at least a dozen European countries involved in the colonization of the Americas.
Site of first European settlement in Brazil, the feitoria of Igarassu, in 1516. [11] 1535 Olinda: Pernambuco: Brazil One of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil. [12] 1535: Vila Velha: Espírito Santo: Brazil: 1535: Paria: Oruro: Bolivia: First Spanish settlement in Bolivia 1536 Santiago de Cali: Valle del Cauca: Colombia 1536 Popayán ...
A typical example of a colonial plantation was Providence Plantations, the first permanent European settlement in Rhode Island. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Providence Plantations was established along the Providence River by Puritan minister Roger Williams and a small band of followers, who were fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts Bay . [ 22 ]
In March 1638, the Swedish colony of New Sweden was established as the first permanent European settlement in Delaware. The Kalmar Nyckel anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill. [7] Today this site is called Swedes' Landing; it is located in Wilmington, Delaware. [6]
The fort was the first permanent European settlement in Vermont. It consisted of a 180-square foot (17 m²) wooden stockade with 12 guns manned by 55 men (43 Massachusetts militiamen and 12 Mohawk warriors). It was named after Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, who was acting governor of Massachusetts at the time of the fort's construction.
It is the first permanent European settlement and oldest municipality in what would become the state of New Jersey. [8] It became and remained the seat of government for the province until 1709, when the British moved it to Hackensack, which was seen as more centrally located. [9]