Time line watershed in modern world history

Time line watershed in modern world history

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Time Line
Please make a time line using these dates and explain the importance of these dates. Each date should be at least 3-5 sentences detailing the importance in Colonial history.

1492 marks a watershed in modern world history. Columbus’s voyage of discovery inaugurated a series of developments that would have vast consequences for both the Old World and the New.
1584 – Raleigh sends first expedition to America.
1607 April-First arrivals- The English first arrived at Jamestown, VA.
1620 Nov- Plymouth rock and the pilgrims.
1639- First constitution in America adopted by Connecticut.
1676- Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia. King Philip’s War in New England.
1756 – What led up to the French and Indian War and why it formally begun.
1763-French and Indian War, the ending and aftermath.
1775- American Revolution Colonists didn’t want to pay higher taxes to the King. Revolted. The king wanted to raise taxes in the colonies to pay for the French and Indian war.
1778. French-American alliance. June 28. Battle of Monmouth. December 29. British take Savannah.