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Verrazano sailing for France discovers New York Harbor
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigates 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 explorer Samual de Champlain founds the colony of Quebec
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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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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands claims land that will become New Netherlands
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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 Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and Native Americans
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Sieur de la Salle explores lower Mississippi Valleyriver and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in honor of the French King Louis XIV
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War between the British and French known as the French and Indian war. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley
