Age of Exploration

  • Verrazano
    Oct 7, 1524

    Verrazano

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

    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.