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1587
 
    
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement       
1587
 
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Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island      
1590
 
  
An English ship, the first to arrive at Roanoke Island since 1587, finds no remaining trace of the settlers or their settlement     
1594
 
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Willem Barents sets off on the first of his three expeditions to find a passage to the east through the waters north of Russia       
1609
 
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A law is passed expelling the Moriscos from Spain, with the result that some 300,000 are shipped to north Africa      
1616
 
    
Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown       
1616
 
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John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614       
1620 September 16
 
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The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world       
1630
 
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John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers       
1650
 
    
The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America