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It was founded by 100 English settlers on the coast of Virginia.
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The French explorer, Samuel de Champlain founded the Colony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson explores the Netherlands and claims the land that later becomes the New Netherland.
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Epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many Native Americans on the New England coast.
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Duke drive out the Dutch in New Netherland. He claims the colony for England and rebnames it New York.
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War begins between colonists and Native Americans in the Colonial villages of Massachusetts.
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Sieur de la Salle explored the lower half of the Mississippi Valley River and claims it. He named it Louisiana in Honor of French King Louis XIV.
