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- Austin, TexasOn the 27th of December 1839, the Texas Congress officially incorporated a settlement named Waterloo as the new capital of the Republic of Texas.
- San Jose, CaliforniaOn the 29th of November 1777, a group of settlers established the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe on the eastern bank of the Guadalupe River.
- SeattleFor at least 4,000 years before the first European settlers arrived, Native Americans inhabited the land now known as Seattle.
- Portland, OregonThe land that became Portland was flooded by massive ice-age floods when glacial dams from Lake Missoula collapsed in what is now Montana.
- BostonIn 1630, English Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop arrived on the Shawmut Peninsula to establish a new settlement. Isaac Johnson named this place Boston…
- MelbourneFor over 40,000 years, the land now known as Melbourne was home to Aboriginal Victorians. The Kulin nation comprised five distinct peoples who shared this…
- Cape TownIn 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias arrived at the southern tip of Africa and named it Cape of Storms. He was the first European to reach this…
- San FranciscoOn the 2nd of November 1769, a Spanish exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portolá arrived at San Francisco Bay. This marked the first documented European…
- Los AngelesOn the 4th of September 1781, a group of forty-four settlers known as Los Pobladores founded the town they called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los…
- LondonIn 1993, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Bronze Age bridge on the south River Thames foreshore, upstream from Vauxhall Bridge.
- New York CityIn 1624, thirty families arrived on Governors Island to establish a Dutch fur trading settlement. This small group founded what would become New Amsterdam in…