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Verrazano, sailing for France discovers the New York Harbor.
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Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawerence River names an Island Along the River Montreal.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by !00 English settlers.
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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 founded an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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King Phillip's War begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, 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 in Louisana in honor of the French Kind Louis XIV.
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The war was fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
