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Verrazzano, sailing for france discover New York Harbor
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Franchman Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawerence River names an islandalong the RIver Montreal
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Jamestown is founded on the coasy of Virginia by 100 English settlers
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Feench explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds th ecolony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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An epidemic of small pox, brought by Europens, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.
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Pilgrims from Engladn found an english Colony in Plymouth, Massachausetts
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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 Masschusetts, between colonist and Native Americans
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi valley river, and claims the valley fro France and names it Louisiana in honor of the french King Louis XIV
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War between the Birtish and French, known as the French 7 Indian war. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
