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Verrazano, sailing for France discovers the New York Harbor
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River and names an island along the River Montreal.
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Founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native americans on the New England coast.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec.
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Exploring the Netherlands he claims land that will become New Netherland.
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from England found an english colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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He drives out the dutch in New Netherland. The duke claims the colony for england and renames it New York.
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war begins in coonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and the native americans
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Sieur de la Salle explored the lower Mississippi valley river and claims the valley of france and names it Louisiana in honor of the french king Lous XIV.
