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Jan 19, 1524
Verrazzand, sailing for France discovers New York Harbor
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Jan 19, 1534
Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an Island Along the River Montreal
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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 Netherlands
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec
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Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts
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The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland
The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renbames it New York -
King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachuesetts, between colonists and Native Americans
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Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley River, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV
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War between the British and French
French and Indian War -
An epidemic of smallpox, brought by the Europeans
kills many Native Americans on the New England coast
