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1524
verrazzo sailing for france discovers new York harbor
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1534
frenchman Jacques cartier navigates the St lawrence river names an island by the river montreal
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jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 english settelers
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French explorer Samuel de Champlain found the quebec colony
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henry hudson
He was exploring the nether lands claims land will become new nether land -
epidemic
smallpox brought by Europeans kills many native americans on the new England coast -
pilgrims from England found an english colony in plymouth massachusetts
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king phillips war
begins in colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and native americans -
The Duke of Your Drives out the dutch in new nether land the duke of york claims the colony for England and renames it new York
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sieur de la salle explores the lower Mississippi vally river and claims the vally river
and claims the vally for french and names it Louisiana in honor of the french king louis XIV -
war between the british and french know as french and indian war
the war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio valley
