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Verrazzano, sailing for France, discovers New York Harbor
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Frenchmen Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence RIbver, 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 exploerer, Samuel de Chaplai, founds the colony of Quebec
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Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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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 Enlgish Colony in Plymouth, Mamssachusetts
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duck of YOrk claims the colony for England and renames it New York
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King Phillip's War begins in COlonial villages of massachusetts, between colonists and Native Americans.
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Sieur de la Salle explores the Lower Mississsippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names it Lousiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV
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War between the Britisn and the French, known as the French and Ididan war. The war is fought over dispuuted land claims in the Ohio Valley
