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Verrazano sailed for France and discovers New York Harbor
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Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an island along the Montreal River
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Jamestown is founded on coast of Virginia by English settlers
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French explorer Samuel de Champlain founds the colony of Quebec
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Henry Hudson claims land that will become New Netherland
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Smallpox brought over my Europeans kills many Native Americans
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Pilgrims from England found an English colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Dude of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the colony the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and Native Americans
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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
