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  2. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...

  3. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal. 1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1] 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India.

  4. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    1.12 Swedish. 1.13 Norse. ... This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. Colonies of European countries ... History of Egypt under ...

  5. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1501: Corte-Real brothers explore the coast of what is today the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador; 1502: Columbus sails along the mainland coast south of Yucatán, and reaches present-day Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; 1503: Las Tortugas noted by Columbus in passage through the Western Caribbean present-day Cayman Islands

  6. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This effectively doubled the size of the colonies, now able to stretch west past the Proclamation Line to the Mississippi River. This land was organized into territories and then states, though there remained some conflict with the sea-to-sea grants claimed by some of the original colonies. In time, these grants were ceded to the federal ...

  7. List of North American settlements by year of foundation

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    One of the four original towns of New Hampshire. Revolutionary War capital of New Hampshire, and site of the ratification of the first state constitution in the North American colonies in January 1776. 1638: Hampton: New Hampshire: United States: Founded by Stephen Bachiler; first known as Winnicunnet. 1638: Sillery: Quebec: Canada [24] Now ...

  8. List of empires - Wikipedia

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    12 Grand Duchy of Lithuania: 1236: 1795: 559 Empire of Great Fulo: 1512: 1776: 264 Great Moravian Empire: 833: 907: 74 Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty: 730: 1036: 306 Gupta Empire: 320: 550: 230 Habsburg Monarchy: 1282: 1918: 636 First Empire of Haiti: 1804: 1806: 2 Second Empire of Haiti: 1849: 1859: 10 Hafsid Kingdom: 1229: 1574: 345 Han Dynasty ...

  9. Chronology of Western colonialism - Wikipedia

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    World War II (1939-1945). 1941: Atlantic charter Endorsed by all the Allies of World War II; Calls for self-determination. 1941: Foundation of the Viet Minh by Ho Chi Minh. 1941: Syria proclaims its independence from Vichy France, which is recognized in 1944. 1942: Quit India Movement called for by Gandhi on August 9. 1943: Independence of Lebanon.