European Nations Settle in North America

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  • Period: 1500 to

    European Nations Settle in North America

  • 1524

    verrazano discovers New York Harbor

    verrazano discovers New York Harbor
    sailing from France
  • 1535

    Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River

    Jacques Cartier navigates the St. Lawrence River
    A Frenchman traveled and named islands along the St. Lawrence River Montreal

  • Jamestown is founded

    Jamestown is founded
    on coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers

  • Henry Hudson clams land for Netherlands

    Henry Hudson clams land for Netherlands
    claimed land that later became the New Netherlands

  • Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec

    Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec
    French explorer founds colony

  • smallpox kills Native Americans

    smallpox kills Native Americans
    the English kill the native people with smallpox as they landed on the new England coast

  • Pilgrims from England founded English Colony in Plymouth

    Pilgrims from England founded English Colony in Plymouth
    Colony founded in Plymouth Massachusetts

  • Duke of York dives out the dutch in New Netherlands

    Duke of York dives out the dutch in New Netherlands
    the Duke claims the colony for England and renames it New York

  • War between the colonists and Native Americans brakes out

    War between the colonists and Native Americans brakes out
    King Phillip's began war on the native Americans with the colonists of Massachusetts

  • France lays claim to and named the land Louisianan

    France lays claim to and named the land Louisianan
    sieur de la salle explores Mississippi valley river and clams the valley for french king Louis XIV

  • French & Indian War begins

    French & Indian War begins
    war between the British and French. war over disputed land claims in Ohio valley