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Verranzzando, sailed for France and discovers the New York Harbor.
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Frenchmen Jacques Cartier navigated the St. Lawerence 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 Chaplain, found the colony Quebec
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Henry Hudson, ecplored for the Netherlands, claims land that wll becine New Netherlands.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.
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Pilgrams from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massechusetts
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for Enland renames it New York.