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Verrazzano, Sailing for France discovers 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, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherlands
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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An Epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England Coast.
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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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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River names an island along the Montreal
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachuestts, between colonists and NAtive Americans
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A war between the British and French, known as the French & Indian war. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley
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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 Kins Louis XIV.
