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1607 BCE
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, was founded in Virginia.
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Virginia became a royal colony under English crown control
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The English seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York in honor of the Duke of York.
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American colonists staged the Boston Tea Party, protesting British taxation by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
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The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted, declaring the thirteen American colonies' independence from British rule.
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Manhatten project
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USSR invents the atomic bomb
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Cuba-crisis
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The fall of the Berlin wall
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USSR's breakdown
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Genocide in Rwanda
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9/11 attack on twin towers
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President Bush declares "war on terror"
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USA removes the last american troops from Afghanistan