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Verrazano, sailing for France discovers 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 Virginia by 100 English settlers.
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French explore, Samuel de Champlain, Founds the colony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherlands.
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An 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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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King lotus XIV.
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War between the British and French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disrupted land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans
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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.
