European colonization of north america

  • Period: Sep 8, 1492 to

    European colinization

    This time period the spanish and french colonized north america
  • Oct 8, 1492

    Columbus encounters the new world

    Columbus sailing for thre spanish empire encountered the new world for the first time
  • Sep 9, 1534

    jacques carter sailed up the st. lawrence

    the king orderedjacques cartier to find the gold spices which were valueable than. he took a water passage from france to asia
  • Sep 8, 1539

    Hernando desoto expedition of southeast

    Hernando desoto travled over 4,000 miles traveling what now is the southeast america
  • Jul 7, 1540

    Coranados expedition from mexico to kansas

    Coranados expedition through mexico to kansas. he traveled for a very long time covering a lot of miles
  • Sep 8, 1565

    spanish establish st, augustine in florida

    they landed on the shore than started putting tohgtether st,augustin
  • ranoke colony

    The ranoake colony was established in 1585
  • santa fe

    This was created in 1598. it was a capital and is now one of the oldest in north america
  • Fur trade

    the french started the fur trade which was animals fur with the indians they would trade for all sorts of things
  • jamestown virginia created

    Jamestown virgina was created and was very popular
  • founded quebec

    The french navigator founded quebec in 1608 he is very important to canadians
  • first african slaves arrive in virgina

    The first african slaves arrived in virginia in 1619 which was firmly inplace
  • plymouth massachusetts

    the plymouth colony was bagan
  • beaver wars

    The beaver wars lasted from 1640 to 1701. the dutch would exchange beaver pelts for guns
  • South carolina colony founded

    south carolina part of the original province of carolina was founded
  • sailing the mississippi

    They were exploring the mississippi and sailed down the river
  • pueblo revolt

    The pueblo killed 400 spanish and pushed the remaining 2,00 settlers out of provinince
  • pennsylvania founded

    Provinince of pennsilvania was founded