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Edward Fuller's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of
Edward, his family, and friends. For example, Edward is 9 years old when Sir Walter Raleigh sends several ships to establish the New World's first English colony. They name the surrounding area Virginia. This colony fails and survivors return to England two years later. He makes two more attempts at Roanoke Island, North Carolina and Virginia. Virginia Dare becomes the first child to be born at the second colony. Eventually all colonists die and these colonies fail.
| Age | Date | Event |
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| 33 |
1608 |
Lippershey invents the telescope |
| Age | Date | Event |
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| 9 |
1584 |
Sir Walter Raleigh sends several ships to establish the New World's first English colony. They name the surrounding area Virginia. This colony fails and survivors return to England two years later. He makes two more attempts at Roanoke Island, North Carolina and Virginia. Virginia Dare becomes the first child to be born at the second colony. Eventually all colonists die and these colonies fail. |
| 32 |
1607 |
Britain establishes their first successful colony at Jamestown, Virginia after King James I grants the Virginia Company a charter to settle in the Chesapeake Bay region. |
| 35 |
1610 |
Pocahontas is captured by the Jamestown Colonists as misunderstandings and hostilities escalate between the two cultures. Two years later she will save John Smith's life. |
| 44 |
1619 |
The first slaves are transported to America |
| 45 |
1620 |
Massachusetts is established on November 9th, when the Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) with 101 colonists. Squanto, a Native American captured and taken to Britain several years earlier, travels with them and teaches them how to live off the land. On Nov. 11th, the Mayflower Compact is signed by 41 men and establishes the first form of local government. |
| 46 |
1621 |
First treaty between colonists and Native Americans is signed by the Plymouth colonist and the Wampanoag. Squanto acts as a translator. |
