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Period: Sep 8, 1492 to
European colonisation
colination of North America -
Oct 2, 1492
Columbus encounters the new world
sailing for spanish empire and encounters a new world -
Jun 9, 1534
French Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence
On June 9, Cartier sailed into the waters of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada which the king ordered him to find gold, spices, and a water passage from France to Asia. -
Sep 2, 1538
Hernando expedition of the Southeast
Under the command of Panfilo Narvaez was sent by the King of Spain to explore the Spanish territory of Florida, which included at that time the whole of southeastern North America. -
Sep 9, 1540
Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas
Finding no wealth in Cibola or the surroundings, Coronado moved his army east to the pueblos around Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande River, in September 1540. -
Sep 8, 1543
end of Hernando's Southeastern North America exploration
They ended the exploration conduction by the Spanish. -
Sep 8, 1565
Spanish establish St. Augustine, Florida
On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin. -
Attempted Roanoke Colony
The Roanoke colonies, the result of three attempts at colonization on the eastern shores of what would become North Carolina, laid the foundation for later English colonization initiatives. -
French began fur trade with Indians
The fur trade in North America began almost as soon as Europeans began their explorations of the North American mainland and it went from 1600-1760. -
the founding of Jamestown, Virginia
America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. -
Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe
he had "made a settlement at Santa Fe." The place he called Santa Fe was a beautiful little valley with a small river flowing through it, beneath the mountains a few miles east of the river named the Rio Grande. -
Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec
When they arrived in June 1608, they constructed a fort in what is now Quebec City. Quebec would soon become the hub for French fur trading. -
John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia
The colonists in Virginia tried a number of different enterprises: silk making, glassmaking, lumber, sassafras, pitch and tar, and soap ashes, with no financial success. It was John Rolfe's experiments with tobacco that developed the first profitable export. -
First African slaves arrived in Virginia
This historically marks the early planting of the seeds of the American slave trade. -
Plymouth, Massachusetts founded
The Pilgrims were English Separatists who founded (1620) Plymouth Colony in New England. -
Beaver Wars
The Beaver Wars (1640 - 1701), also called the French and Iroquois Wars, were terrifying and brutal wars fought by tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy against the French and the Indian tribes who were their allies, including the Huron, Algonquins and the Mohicans. -
South Carolina colony founded
King Charles II issued a royal charter to eight nobles to settle the area south of Virginia. They created Carolina and included the previous settlement. -
Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi
They guessed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and that traveling further south might mean capture by the Spaniards and so returned to the north by way of the Illinois River and Lake Michigan. -
The Pueblo Revolt
After the conquest of northern New Mexico by Juan de Oñate at the turn of the seventeenth century Spanish authorities systematically subjugated the inhabitants of the pueblos. Indians who had lived and worshiped independently for centuries were forced to abandon their religions, adopt Christianity, and pay tribute to Spanish rulers. -
Pennsylvania Colony founded
William Penn founded the Pennsylvania His goal was to create a colony that allowed for freedom of religion due to his desire to protect himself and "fellow Quakers" from persecution. -
Georgia Colony founded
James Oglethorpe was given a charter from King George II to create a new colony which he would name Georgia, located between South Carolina and Florida. It had two main purposes: to serve as a place where debtors in prison could go to start anew and it served as a barrier against Spanish expansion from Florida.