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Verrazzand, sailing for France, discovers New York Harbor.
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Frechman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an Island Along the River Montreal.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English Settlers.
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An epidemic of smallpox 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 of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonial vilages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans.
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War between the British and the French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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