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Sep 10, 1492
Columbus encountered the New World for the first time
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Sep 10, 1496
Hernando de soto's expedition of the southeast
hernandode soto arrived in the west indies as a young man and went on to make a fortune in the central American slave trade. -
Period: Sep 11, 1530 to Sep 11, 1540
french began fur trade
In the early 17th century, French traders began to use Huron (or Wyandot) middlemen to trade with the Native peoples in the Great Lakes region. Native people belonged to several “ethnic” groups. The members of an ethnic group (for example Ojibwa or Menominee) spoke the same language and shared a common history and identity, but did not all live in the same community or recognize the same leaders. -
Jun 9, 1534
Jacque cartier sailed the St. Lawrence
on June 9, Cartier sailed into the waters of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada. Although he couldn't travel up the river all the way to Asia, Cartier had in fact discovered an important waterway into the vast areas of Canada. -
Sep 11, 1536
french began fur trade
In the early 17th century, French traders began to use Huron (or Wyandot) middlemen to trade with the Native peoples in the Great Lakes region. Native people belonged to several “ethnic” groups. The members of an ethnic group (for example Ojibwa or Menominee) spoke the same language and shared a common history and identity, but did not all live in the same community or recognize the same leaders. -
Sep 10, 1540
coronado expedition from mexico to kansas
Coronado moved his army east to the pueblos around Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande River, in September 1540. -
Sep 8, 1565
spanish etablished St.Augustine, Flordia
Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. He named the settlement "San Agustín", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida on August 28, 1565, the feast day of St. Augustine. -
John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia
ohn Rolfe is best remembered for having introduced tobacco as a commercial crop to Virginia colonists. The production of this valuable commodity shaped the future development of the colony and provided an economic incentive for further expansion and settlement of the New World. Rolfe is also well-known because of his marriage to Pocahontas. -
The Roanoke Colony
The first English Colony of Roanoke, originally consisting of 100 householders, was founded in 1585, 22 years before Jamestown and 37 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, under the ultimate authority of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1584 Raleigh had been granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to colonize America. -
Juan de ontae founded santa fe
the proprietor and military commander of the colony, had established New Mexico in 1598, with his headquarters at the pueblo of San Gabriel, just west across the Rio Grande from the still-existing pueblo of San Juan. -
Jamestown, Virginia Founded
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
samuel de champlain founded quebec
Quebec was founded in 1608, and New France had the opportunity of more than one hundred and fifty years before it finally resigned in favor of Great Britain. A hundred and fifty years from the settlement of New Plymouth had fitted the descendants of those settlers for self-government and the opening drama of the Revolution. -
plymouth , massachusetts founded
PLYMOUTH COLONY (or Plantation), the second permanent English settlement in North America, was founded in 1620 by settlers including a group of religious dissenters commonly referred to as the Pilgrims. -
marquette and joliet sailed down the mississippi
Once on the Mississippi, Marquette describes “a monster with the head of a tiger, the nose of a wildcat, and whisker”—a large species of catfish. On the riverbank, Marquette described the presence of large cattle, the bison. They met with bands of the Illinois tribes living in the region, who shared calumet pipes of tobacco with the French explorers. -
The Pueblo Revolt
was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, -
pennsylvania colony founded
was founded in english north america by william peen as on march 4 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by king charles II. -
Beaver Wars
beaver wars also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars—encompass a series of conflicts fought in the mid-17th century in eastern North America.
