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Verrazzand, saling for France discovers New York Harbor.
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Frenchman Jacques Cartier navigate the St. Lawrence River names an Island Along the RIver Montreal.
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French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, founds the colony of Quebec.
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Henry Husdon, exploring for the Netherlands, claims land that will become New Netherland.
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An epidemic of smallpox, brought by Europeans, kills many native Americans on the New England coast.
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The Duke if York drives out the Dutch in New Netherland. The Duke of York claims the colony for England and renames it New York.
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King Phillip's War ebings in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, bewteen colonies and Native Americans.
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War beteween the British and French, known as the French and Indian War. The war is fought over disputed land claims in the Ohion Valley.
