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Oct 21, 1496
Hernando de Soto
was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, and the first documented to have crossed the Mississippi River -
Jun 9, 1534
Jacques Cartier Sailed Up the St. Lawrence River
When French navigator Jacques Cartier left France by boat in April 1534, the king ordered him to find gold, spices (which were valuable at that time), and a water passage from France to Asia. -
Nov 18, 1550
Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar
was a Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor of the Santa Fe de Nuevo México province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. -
Sep 22, 1554
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján
was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who led a great expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas -
Aug 13, 1574
Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec
was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. -
The Roanoke Colony
on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. -
John Rolfe
was one of the early English settlers of North America -
The Jamestown
settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began,... this was the first colony in the British Empire. -
Louis Jollie
was a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. -
The Beaver Wars
also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars -
Pueblo Revolt
was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico -
The North American fur trade
was the industry and activities related to the acquisition, trade, exchange, and sale of animal