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Oct 27, 1453
the Turks captured Constantinople
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Nov 4, 1492
Christopher Columbus reached the islands of the Caribbean in 1492.
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Nov 4, 1524
Verrazano explored the coastline of North America from Florida as far north as modern Nova Scotia
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Oct 27, 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.
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Nov 4, 1535
Cartier's second voyage
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Oct 27, 1567
Champlain was born
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French and the Hurons were defeated In a second battle with the Iroquois
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Champlain died at Quebec
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The Iroquois Confederacy invaded and destroyed Huronia and the Jesuit missions to the Huron.
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King Louis XIV took personal control of the government in France