Near Boston, the military engagements were the battles of Lexington & Concord which initiated the American Revolution.
Peter Minuit founded the Dutch colony of new amsterdam (new york)
The development of new ways of telling social reality, and writers sought connections between their work and the social environment and context in which their lives were spent. It was mostly through stories and novels that literary productions were embodied.
A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.