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1 day ago · The establishment of the Roanoke Colony ( / ˈroʊənoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but it was visited by a ship in 1590 and the crew found that the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances.
1 day ago · The brave pilgrims who embarked on this historic journey to America in 1620 were seeking religious freedom, a new beginning, and the promise of a better life. However, the exact number of pilgrims who set sail on the Mayflower remains a mystery. While some sources claim that there were 102 passengers on board, others suggest that the number may ...
3 days ago · Poplar street and some adjoining lanes were lined with at least 50 tenements and cottages by 1400. Such dense settlement was perhaps due to the anchorage at Blackwall, used by travellers and for military embarkations.
3 days ago · The early church in England was a distinctive fusion of British, Celtic, and Roman influences. Although adopting the episcopal structure favoured by the church of Rome, it retained powerful centres in the monasteries that had been established due to the influence of Irish Christianity.
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4 days ago · The rooms, dull, heavy, dingy apartments as they were, are said by tradition to have occupied the actual site, or rather to have been carved out of the ancient hall, the room of public entertainment of the hostelry, or, as it was popularly called, "The Pilgrims' Room;" and here it is conjectured Chaucer's pilgrims—if that particular ...
4 days ago · 596 – Gregory the Great sends Augustine and a team of missionaries to (what is now) England to reintroduce the Gospel. The missionaries settle in Canterbury and within a year baptize 10,000 people; 600 – First Christian settlers in Andorra (between France and Spain)
1 day ago · The first permanent British settlement in colonial America was established in 1607, at Jamestown, in what is now Virginia. A second settlement was established in Massachusetts in 1621. By the time the American colonies declared their independence in 1776, the population of colonial America had increased from a few hundred settlers to ...
