exploration and discoveries

By Joseronaldo7
  • Period: Aug 18, 1450 to

    Exploration and discoveries

  • May 15, 1524

    First Three voyages

    In 1534, Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River.
  • Apr 23, 1562

    South Carolina

    A small group of French troops were left on Parris Island, South Carolina in 1562 to build Charlesfort, but left after a year when they were not resupplied by France.
  • Jul 23, 1565

    First Spanish settlement

    St. Augustine in Florida was established as a Spanish fort in 1565, the first permanent settlement in what would become the United States.

  • Roanoke

    The Roanoke adventure began as an exploration of Virginia, named for Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. Attempts to settle Virginia were made between 1585 and 1590.

  • Lost Colony

    Captain John White left Roanoke in 1587 in order to re-supply the colony with goods from England. Upon his return in 1590, however, the people had vanished leaving inadequate clues as to where they went.

  • First Dutch colony

    In 1609, the VOC commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the so-called northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.

  • First English colony

    The first successful English colony was Jamestown, established in 1607 near Chesapeake Bay.

  • First Dutch settlement

    The first Dutch settlement in America was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island in the Hudson, near present-day Albany.

  • Anglo-Dutch war

    From 1673 to 1674, the territories were once again briefly captured by the Dutch in the Third Anglo–Dutch War, only to be returned to England at the Treaty of Westminster.

  • Last French war

    last French and Indian War resulted in the dissolution of New France, with Canada going to Great Britain and Louisiana going to Spain. Only the islands of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon have remained in French hands until today.