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Verrazzand, sailing fro France discovers New York Harbor.
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Frechman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an island along the river Montreal.
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Jamestown is found on the coast of virginia by 100 English settlers.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, found the colony of Quebec.
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Exploring for the netherlands, claims land that will become new Netherlands.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by European, kills many native American on the new england coast.
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King Phillip's war begins in Colonial villages of Massachuesetts, 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.
