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Verrazano sailing for France
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River names an island along the River Montreal
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia
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Samuel de Champlain finds colony of Quebec
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Henry Hudson claims land that will now become New Netherland
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Pilgrims from England found an English colony in Plymouth Massachusetts
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland
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Sierur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river
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Phillip's war begins in Colonial villages of massachusetts
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War between the British and French
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans
