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Verrazzand discovers New York Harbor while atttempting to sail for France.
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The Frenchman, Jacques Cartier, names an island Montreal while he is traveling the St. Lawrence river.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English Settlers.
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The French Explorer, named Samuel do Champlain, found the colony of Quebec.
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While Henry Hudson is exploring the Netherlands, he claims the lands that will one day become New Netherland
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Pilgrims from Egland form a religious colony in Massachusetts named Plymouth.
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A war, known as King Phillips, begins in the colonial villages of Massachusettes between the colonists and neighboring Native Americans
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Frenchman Sieur de la Salle is explorind the lower Mississippi river valley, when he claims the valley and names it Louisianna, after king Louis XIV.
