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Verrazzand, who sailed for France discovered the New York Harbor.
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River, and 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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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson, who explored the Netherlands, claims that will become the New Netherland.
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Smallpox brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.
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Pilgrims from England founded 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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The King Phillip's War began in Colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and Native Americans
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for Franch and names it Louisiana in Honer of the French King Louis XIV.
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War begain between the British and the French, known as the French & Indian War. The war was fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
