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14th May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, established as the first permanent English settlement in North America

14th May 2024
Tagged as: America, Colonialism, Discovery, Exploration, James I, Jamestown, United States, USA, Virginia

They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James I.

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22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

22nd March 2024
Tagged as: Colonialism, Colonies, English, Indian, Jamestown, Massacre, Powhatan, Settlers

The surprise attack was launched against English settlers by the the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Chief Opechancanough.

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30th July 1619: The General Assembly of Virginia, the oldest continuous elected assembly in the New World, convenes for the first time

30th July 2023
Tagged as: America, Democracy, Government, Jamestown, Virginia

The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.

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14th May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia, established as the first permanent English settlement in North America

22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

30th July 1619: The General Assembly of Virginia, the oldest continuous elected assembly in the New World, convenes for the first time

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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