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Columbus set sail on this day and arrived in North America a couple of months later thinking he discovered this new land.
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Jamestown was named after King James I of England.
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Eleven ships sailed to there from the Massachusetts Bay Company and created this colony.
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New Netherlands was created by the Dutch Company and later grew taking over New Amsterdam and Long Island....New Amsterdam is now New York.
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They met here to resolve two problems of Ohio Valley of the American Colonies.
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The attack on Fort Duqesne was to drive the French out of the Ohio Valley so they could get to Canada.
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They signed the Treaty of Paris on this day to end the war.
