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In 1542 Verrazano was sailing for France and discovered the New York Harbor.
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Frenchman names an island along the River Montreal
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100 English settlers found Jamestown on the coast of Virginia.
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Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer, founds the colony of Quebec
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Henry Hudson, an explorer of the Netherlands, claims land as New Netherlands
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A smallpox epidemic, brought over by Europeans, killed many Native Americans on the New England coat
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A new colony is established by pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland, claims the land for England. Names the new are New York
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a war begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley River and claims it for France, names it Louisiana in honor of the French King Louis XIV.
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A war between the British and French begins, war is fought over disputed lands int he Ohio Valley.