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    This timeline summarizes important authors, publications, and historical events in the English colonies between 1560-1769. It includes the births and deaths of authors such as Thomas Harriot, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather. It also notes the publications of significant works including Harriot's A Brief and True Report, Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse, and Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana. Additionally, it outlines key colonial events like the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth colonies, the Pequot War, the Salem Witch Trials, and Jonathan Edwards' famous 1741 sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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    This timeline summarizes important authors, publications, and historical events in the English colonies between 1560-1769. It includes the births and deaths of authors such as Thomas Harriot, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather. It also notes the publications of significant works including Harriot's A Brief and True Report, Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse, and Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana. Additionally, it outlines key colonial events like the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth colonies, the Pequot War, the Salem Witch Trials, and Jonathan Edwards' famous 1741 sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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    Smith Timeline 1

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    This timeline summarizes important authors, publications, and historical events in the English colonies between 1560-1769. It includes the births and deaths of authors such as Thomas Harriot, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather. It also notes the publications of significant works including Harriot's A Brief and True Report, Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse, and Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana. Additionally, it outlines key colonial events like the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth colonies, the Pequot War, the Salem Witch Trials, and Jonathan Edwards' famous 1741 sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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    Michael Lee

    English 244

    October 11, 2010

    Timeline 1
    Authors and Publications Year Historical Events
    Thomas Harriot born 1560
    Thomas Morton born 1579
    January - John Smith born 1580
    A Brief and True Report by Harriot is
    published 1588
    Mar 19 - William Bradford born 1590
    Jamestown Colony is founded. First pernament
    1607 English Colony.
    Anne Bradstreet born 1612
    First Africans arrive in Jamestown as indentured
    1619 servants.
    Mayflower lands in Plymouth. Puritans found
    1620 Plymouth colony to freely practice their religion
    Jul 2 - Harriot dies 1621
    The General History of Virginia, New
    England, and the Summer Isles 1624
    Jun 21 - Smith dies 1631
    Pequot War is fought between English colonists
    1634- with Native American allies against the Pequot
    38 Indians. Pequot tribe is mostly wiped out.
    Mary Rowlandson born 1637
    New England Canaan by Morton is
    published
    Morton dies 1647
    The first edition of The Tenth Muse is printed,
    a collection of Bradstreet's poems 1650
    Mar 28 - Samuel Sewall born 1652
    May 9 - Bradford dies 1657
    Feb 12 - Cotton Mather born 1663
    Sep 16 - Bradstreet dies 1672
    1673-
    Sewall keeps The Diary of Samuel Sewall 1728
    The second edition of Bradstreet's The
    Tenth Muse is published 1678
    William Penn founds Pennsylvania. Here, Penn
    establishes a government allowing religious
    1681 freedom.
    Rowlandson's A Narratative of the Captivity
    and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is
    published 1682
    Salem witch trials held. Courts of Oyer and
    Terminer convict 29 persons of witchcraft,
    1692 hanging 19.
    Magnalia Christi Americana by Mather is
    published 1702
    Oct 4 - Jonathan Edwards born 1703
    Jan 17 - Benjamin Franklin born 1706
    Apr 13 - Jonathan Carver born 1710
    January - Rowlandson dies 1711
    Pontiac born 1720
    Samson Occom born 1723
    Logan born 1725
    Feb 13 - Mather dies 1728
    Jan 1 - Sewall dies 1730
    Dec 31 - Crèvecoeur born
    Oct 30 - John Adams born 1735
    "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon
    is given in Enfield, Connecticut by Jonathan
    Edwards. Revolutionary in use of imagery and
    1741 emotion
    Nov 11 - Abigail Adams born 1744
    Red Jacket born 1757
    Mar 22 - Edwards dies 1758
    Apr 20 - Pontiac dies 1769

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