European nations settle in North America

verrazzo sailing for france discovers new York harbor

1524

frenchman Jacques cartier navigates the St lawrence river names an island by the river montreal

1534

jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 english settelers

1607

French explorer Samuel de Champlain found the quebec colony

1608

henry hudson

1609

He was exploring the nether lands claims land will become new nether land

epidemic

1616

smallpox brought by Europeans kills many native americans on the new England coast

pilgrims from England found an english colony in plymouth massachusetts

1620

king phillips war

1675

begins in colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and native americans

The Duke of Your Drives out the dutch in new nether land the duke of york claims the colony for England and renames it new York

1681

sieur de la salle explores the lower Mississippi vally river and claims the vally river

1682

and claims the vally for french and names it Louisiana in honor of the french king louis XIV

war between the british and french know as french and indian war

1754

the war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio valley