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Chapter 3
 * 1517- Martin Luther posted his Catholic doctrines and began the Protestant Revolution.
 * 1620- Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower from Holland and, accidentally, to Plymouth.
 * 1621- Pilgrims had the first Thanksgiving.
 * 1624- Founded New Netherlands because they were fortunate in leaders.
 * 1629- Charles I diminished parliament.
 * 1635- Charles I prosecuted Puritans.
 * 1635- Roger Williams escaped having to go back England from the colonies after being convicted of heresy by running to Rhode Island.
 * In Rhode Island, Williams established freedom of religion, built the first Baptist church in America, and founded Rhode Island as a colony.
 * Connecticut and New Haven colonies were founded around the same time.
 * In an attempt to expand Connecticut, settlers pushed inland.
 * 1637- Connecticut’s settler explorer’s traveling began the Pequot War.
 * 1638- Anne Hutchinson was banished.
 * 1639- Connecticut’s fundamental orders were established.
 * 1642-1648- English Civil War.
 * 1643- The New England Confederation was formed during the war in 1643.
 * 1670- William Bradford finishes completed //Of Plymouth Plantation//.
 * 1655- New Netherlands conquered New Sweden.
 * 1664- England seized New Netherlands.
 * 1644- The West Jersey colonies were founded.
 * 1681- William Penn founded the Pennsylvania colony.
 * 1686- Royal authority created the Dominion of New England.
 * 1688- The Glorious Revolution overthrew Stuarts and the Dominion of New England.