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Verrazzand, sailing for France discovers New York Harbor
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate the 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 thcolony of Quebec
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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 English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Henry Husdon, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland
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The Duke of York drives out the Durth 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 the French, know as the French and Indian war. The war is fought over disputed lands claims in the Ohio Valley
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lowe Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in honor of the French King Louis XIV
