North America

By Marina Strohbehn
  • Apr 15, 1524

    Verrazzano

    Verrazzano
    Sailed for France and discovered New York Harbor.
  • Apr 15, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier
    Frenchman navigated the St. Lawrebce River and names an island along the River Montreal.
  • Apr 15, 1544

    Sier de la Salle

    Sier de la Salle
    Explored the lower Mississippi Valley river, and cleaims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in Honor of the French King Louis XIV.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Founded on the coast of Virginia by 100 English settlers.

  • Samuel de Champlain

    Samuel de Champlain
    French explorer who founded the colony of Quebec.

  • Smallpox

    Smallpox
    Smallpox brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New English coast.

  • Pilgrims from England

    Pilgrims from England
    Found an English Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson
    Explored for the Netherlands, claimed land that became New Netherland.

  • Duke of New York

    Duke of New York
    Drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. Claims the colony for England and renames it New York.

  • King Philip's War

    King Philip's War
    Began in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonist and Native Americans.

  • War between British and French

    War between British and French
    Known as the French and Indian War. The war was fought over disputed land claimed in the Ohio Valley.