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Breckenridge is the Home Rule Town that is the county seat and most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States. [1] [7] The town population was 5,078 at the 2020 United States Census. [5] Breckenridge is the principal town of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town also has many part-time residents, as ...
Breckenridge Ski Resort, an alpine ski resort in the western United States, in Colorado at the town of Breckenridge Breckenridge 100 , annual bike race Breckenridge, Hancock County, Illinois
1583: England formally claims Newfoundland (Humphrey Gilbert). 1585: Roanoke Colony founded by English on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, failed in 1587; 1598: Failed French settlement on Sable Island off Nova Scotia. 1598: Spanish settlement in Northern New Mexico. 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers.
In 1797, after the American Revolution, the settlement of "Sandwich" was established. Windsor was incorporated as a village in 1854, then became a town in 1858, and gained city status in 1892. It is the oldest continually inhabited European-founded settlement in Canada west of Montreal, despite being settled after other areas in the country. 1797
As part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, England captures New Netherland and renames it the Province of New York. 1665 – The Duke's Laws are issued. 1666 – Great Fire of London. 1669 – The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina are drawn up. 1670 – Charleston, South Carolina is founded, originally as Charles Town. 1672–74 – Third Anglo ...
The Denver Broncos defeat the New England Patriots 20 to 18 to win the American Football Conference Championship for the eighth time. 2015: February 19: U.S. President Barack Obama issues a proclamation creating Browns Canyon National Monument on 21,586 acres (87 km 2) of Bureau of Land Management land. [61] [62] January 2
The English colonization of America had been based on the English colonization of Ireland, specifically the Munster Plantation, England's first colony, [6] using the same tactics as the Plantations of Ireland. Many of the early colonists of North America had their start in colonizing Ireland, including a group known as the West Country Men ...
England adds the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the Connecticut Colony to the Dominion of New England in America, September 9, 1686; England adds the Province of New-York, the Province of East Jersey, and the Province of West Jersey to the Dominion of New-England in America, May 7, 1688; The government of the Dominion of ...