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Verazzano, sailing from France doscovers New York Harbor.
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Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson, exploring the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the Ne England coast.
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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 Netherlands. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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War between the British and French, knows as the French and Indian War. This war was fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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