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The first European settlement in Australia was a penal colony.
Norse. The first European colony in the western hemisphere were led by Leif and Thorvald Erikson and their sister Freydis. Thorvald died there circa 990 AD. The first permanent colony was planted by Spain at St. Augustine in modern day Florida.
The surviving colony of Roanoke was not the first colony. The settlement of Jamestown was the first successful European settlement.
It was a British Colony.
Christopher
the fist colony is Spain
Sydney is the capital of New South Wales, which was the state of the first European colony in Australia.
Cuba.
The first colony in what is today the United States was Saint Augustine, Florida. The first permanent English colony was Jamestown, VA... followed by Plymouth, MA.
The first attempt at colonization involving men, women and boys took place in 1587 on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. It was not successful and the fate of the colonists is still unknown.
The first permanent European colony in North America was established in 1607 in what is now Virginia. This colony was named Jamestown and was founded by English settlers. It marked the beginning of the British colonization of North America.
it was a colony at first but after time passed it became a state...I think