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Actually Columbus wasn't the first European to set foot on the new land. Indians were the first people here.
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Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. It was named after King James I.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century in New England. (do not know the day or month)
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Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam. Following its capture, it was renamed New York.
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Holding daily meetings at the City Hall, official delegates from seven colonies considered strategies for Indian diplomacy and put forth the so-called Albany Plan of Union.
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This was a British assault on the eponymous French fort that was repulsed with heavy losses.
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The British offered France a choice of either its North American possessions east of the Mississippi or the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
