Age of Exploration

By Meg Edler
  • Oct 7, 1524

    Verrazano

    Verrazano
    Verrazano, sailing for France discovers the New York Harbor.
  • Aug 29, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier
    Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawerence River names an Island Along the River Montreal.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by !00 English settlers.

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox
    An epidemic of smallpox,brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.

  • Plymouth

    Plymouth
    Pilgrims from England founded an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  • King Phillip's War

    King Phillip's War
    King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans.

  • Lousiana

    Lousiana
    Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names in Louisana in honor of the French Kind Louis XIV.

  • French & Indian War

    French & Indian War
    The war was fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.