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1453 the Turks captured Constantinople and cut off the trade routes.
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1492 he reached the islands of the Caribbean
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In 1497 They raised the English flag in Newfoundland.
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In 1534 Jacques Cartier discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River
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In 1535 Cartier's second voyage.
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In 1567, Champlain was born at Brouage in western France.
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1603 he travelled up the St. Lawrence.
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In 1604 Champlain set up a post in Acadia.
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In 1608, Champlain moved the head quarters of the colony of New France to Quebec.
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In 1609, Champlain travelled to Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain.
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In 1615 second battle with the Iroquois.
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After 1618, Champlain returned to Quebec, and to improve the settlement of New France.
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In 1628, under David Kirke orders, the English attacked Quebec.
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In 1629, Champlain had no chocie but to surrender to Kirk.
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Samuel de Champlain died in Quebec in 1635.
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1649 they invaded and destroyed Huronia.
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In 1660, The population increased from two thousand.
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Population at the time was a little over 2,000 by 1660.
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In 1661, King Louis XIV. took control over the goverenment.
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then increased to over ten thousand by 1670.