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Verrazano sailing for France discovers New York Harbor.
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Frenchman Jaques Cartier navigates the St. Lawerence River names an island along the River Montreal.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, Founds the colony of Quebec.
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An epicdemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England.
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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Sieur de la Sale explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Horror of France King Louis XIV.
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A war between the British and French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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King Phillip's war begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, Between colonists and Native Americans
