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Verrazzand, sailing for france discovers New York Harbor.
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate teh St. Lawrence River 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 explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds th 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 any native Americans on teh New England Coast.
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Pilgrims from england found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke 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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War between the British and French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims th valley for France an names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XlV.
