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On this day, April 17th, 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano (also spelled "Verrazano") became the first European to record the discovery of New York Harbor. It should be noted that Norse explorers around 1000 AD may have explored the area, but no accounts are known of such exploration.
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On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
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Known as the “Father of New France,” Champlain founded Quebec (1608), one of the oldest cities in what is now Canada, and consolidated French colonies.
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In the years before English settlers established the Plymouth colony (1616–1619), most Native Americans living on the southeastern coast of present-day Massachusetts died from a mysterious disease. Classic explanations have included yellow fever, smallpox, and plague.
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Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Separatist Puritans in December 1620.
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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American revolution.
