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Verrazzano, sailing for France discovers New York.
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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 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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an epidemic of smallpox brought by the europeans kills many antive americans on the new england coast.
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pilgrams from england found an english colony in plymouth, massachusetts.
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the Duke of york drives out dutch in new Netherlands the duke of york claims colony for england and renames it New York.
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King Philips 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 names it louisiana in honor of french king louis XIV
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war between british and french known as the french and indean war the war is fought over disputed land claims in the ohio valley.
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