Major events of colonial Era

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  • Period: Sep 9, 1500 to

    French began fur trade with Indians

  • Jun 9, 1534

    Jacque Cartier sailed the St. Lawrence

  • Aug 9, 1538

    De santo expodition

    In March 1540 the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the territory of the Ichisi, in what is now central Georgia
  • Sep 9, 1540

    Coronados expeditons from mexico to kansas

    Coronado ordered a return of the army to Mexico in 1542
  • Sep 8, 1565

    A Spanish Expedition Established St. Augustine in Florida

    landed on the shore

  • Attempted Roanoke Colony

  • juan de onate founded in santa fae

    Juan de Oñate, the proprietor and military commander of the colony, had established New Mexico in 1598

  • John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia

  • First African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • Plymouth, Massachusetts founded

  • South Carolina colony founded

  • Period: to

    Beaver Wars

  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi

    After this expedition, Marquette set off in late 1674 to build a mission among the Illinois Indians, despite suffering from a lengthy illness. Though he managed to spend Easter among the Illinois at his new mission, Marquette became too ill to continue and died in 1675 on his return trip to the mission at St. Ignace.

  • the pueblo revolt

  • Pennsylvania Colony founded

  • Georgia Colony founded

  • columbus encounters a new world

    Columbus sailing for the spanish empire encountered the new world for the first time