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Settlement
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement

1984 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit

1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

1913 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks

1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders

1890 Around 11M acres, ceded to U.S. by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West

1860 1st White settlement in Idaho, Franklin

1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)

1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west

1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River

1802 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma

1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta

1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago

1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover

1690 French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire

1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa

1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established

1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)

1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia

1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia

1565 1st permanent settlement in U.S. forms (St. Augustine, Florida)

1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms

1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus



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