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Aug 1, 1000
The Norsemen came to the east coast of Canada
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Sep 21, 1492
Christopher Columbus was the first recorded European to take note of the New World
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Jul 15, 1534
Jacques Cartier began a series of explorations and discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River as far west as the Lachine Rapids.
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Sep 24, 1535
Cartier's second voyage
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Apr 2, 1541
Cartier's third voyage
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May 4, 1567
Champlain was born at Brouage in western France
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The French government renewed its interest in New France
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Champlain set up a post in Acadia
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Champlain moved the head quarters of the colony of New France to Quebec
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Champlain died in Quebec
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The Iroquois Confederacy invaded and destroyed Huronia and the Jesuit missions to the Huron
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The population or New France was little more than 2,000
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King Louis XIV took personal control of the government in France
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The population increased from 2,000 to 10,000
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham
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America becomes a separated from the British rule