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European nations Settle in North America

  • Verrazzand
    Apr 22, 1524

    Verrazzand

    Sailing for France discovers New York Harbor
  • Jacques Cartier
    Apr 22, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Navigates the St. Lawrence River names and Island along the River Montreal
  • Plymouth

    Plymouth

    Pilgrims from England found an English colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown is founded on te coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers
  • Samuel de Champlain

    Samuel de Champlain

    Founde the colony of Quebec, and was a French explorer.
  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson

    Explored for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
  • Smallpox

    Smallpox

    An epidemic of smallpox brought by the Europeans, killed many native Americans on the New England coast.
  • King Phillip's War

    King Phillip's War

    Begins in colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans
  • The Duke of York

    The Duke of York

    The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for England adn renames it New York.
  • Sieur de la Salle

    Explored the lower Mississippi valley river, ad claimed the valley for France. He named it Louisiana in honor of the French Kind Louis XIV
  • French & Indian War

    French & Indian War

    War between the British and French, known as the French & Indian War. The war was fought over disputed land cliams in the Ohio Valley.