jun 15, 1630 - Puritans begin to Land

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Puritans (Anglican Calvinists) establish Massachusetts Bay Colony.

During the 1500s and 1600s, Europe was going through a time of great change. The Protestant Reformation was challenging the ruling force in all men’s lives, which for centuries had been the Catholic religion. The Reformation was supposed to correct the abuses of Catholicism by the knowledge of the Bible, which Protestants claimed to be following.
In England, groups of unsatisfied people began to quietly gather together. They didn’t think the Church of England taught truly biblical worship and righteous living. They were called “Puritans” because they believed they needed to purify the English church
of all traces of the old Catholic superstitions, and the English society of all its “immoralities.”

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