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| 1616 |
| | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1620 September 16 |
| | The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world | |
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| 1630 |
| | John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers | |
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| 1650 |
| | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1763 |
| | English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton | |
| | Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes People's History Museum, Manchester
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| 1764 |
| | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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| 1765 |
| | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies | |
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| 1767 |
| | The British Chancellor, Charles Townshend, passes a series of acts taxing all glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the American colonies | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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