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Try 1695. There will be bits and bobs of modern life around, but the core skills required are going to be very much what the European settlers in the new world needed.
Most of the first European settlers didn't have those skills and either died or were rescued by native peoples, whom they later thanked by massacring them.
The settlers were often townsfolk or recently demobilized soldiers, not experienced farmers. And it was a different ecosystem, with greater extremes of climate and different edible plants and pests, so even the agriculture needed to be adapted.