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Sailed for France and discovered New York Harbor.
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Frenchman navigated the St. Lawrebce River and names an island along the River Montreal.
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Explored the lower Mississippi Valley river, and cleaims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV.
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Founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers.
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French explorer who founded the colony of Quebec.
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Smallpox brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New English coast.
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Found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Explored for the Netherlands, claimed land that became New Netherland.
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Drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. Claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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Began in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonist and Native Americans.
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Known as the French and Indian War. The war was fought over disputed land claimed in the Ohio Valley.
