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Verrazzano sails for France and discovers New York Harbor.
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Frenchman, Jacques Cartier, navigates the St. Lawrence River, names and 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 explores for the Netherland, and claims land that will become New Netherland.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native American on the New England coast
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Pligrims 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 Philip's War, begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans.
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Sieur de la Salle explorers the lower Mississippi Valley River, and claism the valley for Francce and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV
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The War between the British and French, known as the French & Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
