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

14th May 2021
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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30th July 1619: The General Assembly of Virginia, the oldest continuous elected assembly in the New World, convenes for the first time

30th July 2020
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

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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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918

21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

16th June 1884: The Switchback Railway, America’s first purpose-built roller coaster, opened at Coney Island in New York City

15th June 1215: King John agrees to Magna Carta by adding his seal

14th June 1645: The Battle of Naseby fought in the English Civil War

13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

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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