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Verazzand, sailing for Francne discoverd New York Harbor.
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Frenchman 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 Viginia by 100 English setlers.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, Founds the colony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Duke or York out of the Dutch in New Netherlands. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonail villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans.
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Sieur de la Salle explors the lower Mississippi Vallet river, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in honor od the French King Louis XIV.
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An epedemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.
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War between the British anf French, known as the French and Indian war. The war is fought over diputed land claims on the Ohio Valley.
