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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River names an Island along the River Montreal.
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Verrazzano, sailing for franch disocvers New York Harbor
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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, ecploring for the Netherlands, clams land that will become New Netherlands.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Ameicans on the New England coast.
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherlands. The Duke of York clamis 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 the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and maes it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV.
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war between the Britisha and French, known as the French & Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land clamis in the Ohio Valley
