exploration

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  • Sep 3, 1492

    christopher columbus

    christopher columbus reached the bahamas and explored cuba and haiti
  • Sep 3, 1497

    John Cabot

    first European encounter with North America
  • Mar 5, 1498

    john cabot 2

    Cabot set out on second voyage
  • Sep 3, 1519

    fredinand magellan

    fredinand magellan began first circumnavigation of the world
  • Sep 3, 1533

    fransisco pizarro

    fransisco pizarro conquered the incas in peru
  • Sep 3, 1535

    JACQUES CARTIER explored the northeast part of the continent

    JACQUES CARTIER explored the northeast part of the continent intending to find the elusive passage to the Orient. Discovered the St. Lawrence River and explored the region in three voyages between 1535 and 1541.
  • Sep 3, 1539

    hernando de soto

    hernando de soto explored the coast between the missisipi river and florida
  • Sep 3, 1560

    martin frobisher

    He set out on first voyage
  • Apr 2, 1576

    dionyse settle

    dionyse settle returned from his voyage in 1576
  • Jan 1, 1577

    Dionyse settle

    Dionyse seettle acompanied Frobisher on his second voyage

  • SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, the founder of Quebec

    Discovered Lake Champlain

  • lords seventeen

    the lords seventeen engaged henry hudson to find a safe passage to the wealthy spice islands in the east

  • French’s battle with the Iroquois

  • Perez de Villagra

    Perez de Villagra published a thirty-four-canto epic poem to chronicle the expedition

  • new netherland company

    The dutch parliament consented to a request to form the New Netherland Company

  • dutch settlement

    first dutch settlement in north america was built in 1614

  • new netherland

    new netherland was founded on current day manhattan in 1626

  • dutch surrender

    the dutch surrender new netherlands to the brittish

  • Marquette & Joliet exploration of the Mississippi River expedition

    JACQUES MARQUETTE & LOUIS JOLIET were sent to explore the Mississippi River in 1673. they were sent to answer two questions.Was the Mississippi a water passage to the Pacific Ocean? Were the fabled kingdoms of Quivira and Theguaio real?

  • dutch withdrawal

    the dutch withdraw completely from north america in 1674