European Nations Settle in North America

By Madison.adams123
  • 1524

    1524

    1524
    Verazzano, sailing for France discovers New York Harbor
  • 1534

    1534

    1534
    Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an island along the River Montreal

  • 1606

    1606
    Jamestown is founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers

  • 1608

    1608
    French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec

  • 1609

    1609
    Henry Hudson, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland

  • 1616

    1616
    An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast

  • 1620

    1620
    Pilgrims from England found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts

  • 1664

    1664
    The Duke of York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York

  • 1675

    1675
    King Phillip's war begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts between colonists and Native Americans

  • 1683

    1683
    Sieur de la Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley river and claims the valley for France and names it Lousiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV

  • 1754

    1754
    War between the British and French, known as the French & Indian War. The war fought over disputed land claims in the Ohio Valley