That honor has to go to the Spanish. Some say the Vikings, but, they didn't stay long enough to welcome the English or the French.
The first English colony to be established in the New World was the Jamestown colony. The last English colony in the New World was British Colombia which was not colonized until the mid 1800s.
The first English colony to be established in the New World was the Jamestown colony. The last English colony in the New World was British Colombia which was not colonized until the mid 1800s.
The first Spanish colony in the New World was Santo Domingo, located on the island of Hispaniola. It was established by Christopher Columbus in 1496.
jamestownIn 1607 the Virginia Company of London established the colony of Jamestowne as the first permanent New World English colony.
SPAIN.More InformationThe first European settlement in the New World was Vinland in (what is now) the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador around 1000 C.E. However, it was destroyed by the First Nations who lived there.The first European colony in the New World was Hispaniola in (what is now) the Dominican Republic and was established in 1493. The colony of Hispaniola was founded by Spain.
There can be two answers to this question. The classical answer is Jamestown, as being the first successful colony established by the British, the other being the colony established in Roanoke (spelling?). This colony mysteriously disappeared for no reason at all, thus the reason for the two way answer.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first colony in what is today New England. At that point contained what is now the states of Massachusetts Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
It was established as a fishing colony in the hope of it becoming a New World fishing empire.
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The first colony established in New England was the Plymouth Plantation, established at Plymouth near Cape Cod.
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Roanoke was named after the Roanoke Island in North Carolina, where the first English colony in the New World was established in 1585.