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In 1494 The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in, and had divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
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In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazza nosailed to North America in search of a sea route to the Pacific
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In 1608, another French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, sailed up the St. Lawrence with about 32 colonists.
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In 1673, French Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and trader Louis Joliet explored the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River
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By the early 1700s, New France covered much of what is now the midwestern United States and eastern Canada.
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In 1606, a company of London investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America. In late
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In 1606, a company of London investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America.
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In late 1606, the company’s three ships, and more than 100 settlers, pushed out of an English harbor.
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In 1620, a group known as Pilgrims founded a second English colony, Plymouth, in Massachusetts
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In 1664, the English king, Charles II, granted his brother, the Duke of York, permission to drive out the Dutch.