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Events relating to america
Pocahontas is baptized a Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of the Jamestown colonists
Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614
The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world
Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony
The Pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement, and give it the name of Plymouth, their port of departure in England
William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation
The Mayflower settlers in Plymouth offer thanksgiving for their first harvest, eating turkeys in a celebration shared by local Indians
William Bradford, one of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, is elected governor of the new Plymouth Colony
The Dutch West India Company is chartered to trade and found colonies anywhere along the entire American coast
A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers
Tne English settlers in Virginia arrange a peace conference with the Powhatan Indians, using it as an opportunity to murder the Powhatan delegates
Peter Minuit purchases the island of Manhattan from local Indians and calls the place New Amsterdam
A British colony is founded in Barbados and within fifteen years has 18,000 settlers
Rival Dutch, English and French colonies are established in Guiana, the northeast coast of south America
John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers
John Winthrop selects the site of Boston for the first Massachusetts settlement
John Winthrop, arriving in Massachusetts, begins the journal that is eventually published as The History Of New England
Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics
Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia
North America's first university is founded at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and soon receives a large bequest from John Harvard
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance
War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut
Richard Fairbanks, given responsibility for delivering mail in Massachusetts, is allowed to charge a penny per letter
The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms
