The French

By kman
  • Aug 1, 1000

    The Norsemen came to the east coast of Canada

  • Sep 21, 1492

    Christopher Columbus was the first recorded European to take note of the New World

  • Jul 15, 1534

    Jacques Cartier began a series of explorations and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River as far west as the Lachine Rapids.

  • Sep 24, 1535

    Cartier's second voyage

  • Apr 2, 1541

    Cartier's third voyage

  • May 4, 1567

    Champlain was born at Brouage in western France

  • The French government renewed its interest in New France

  • Champlain set up a post in Acadia

  • Champlain moved the head quarters of the colony of New France to Quebec

  • Champlain died in Quebec

  • The Iroquois Confederacy invaded and destroyed Huronia and the Jesuit missions to the Huron

  • The population or New France was little more than 2,000

  • King Louis XIV took personal control of the government in France

  • The population increased from 2,000 to 10,000

  • Battle of the Plains of Abraham

  • America becomes a separated from the British rule