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Jan 1, 1524
Verrazzand, sailing for France
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 english settlers
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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 many native americans on the new england coast
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachussetts
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The duke of York drives out the dutch in New Netherland.
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King Phillip's war begins in colonial villages of massachussetts, between colonies and native americans
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Siuer de la Salle explores the lower mississippi valley river, and claims the valley.
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war between the british and the french
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French enxplorer , samuel de chaplain, founds the colony of Quebec
