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Giovanni da Verrazzano an Italian in that sailed for France discovers New York Harbor
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence river names an island along the River Montreal.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Verginia by 100 English settlers.
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Henry Hudson, exploring gor the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Ntherland.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans 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 Netherland. The Duke of York claims the conlony for England and renames it New York.
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King Philip'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 names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV.
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War between the British and French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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Fench explorer, Samuel de Champlain, found the conlony or Quebec.
