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The French sailor Verrazzand discovered the 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 Quebec.
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Jamestown is found by 100 English Settlers on the coast of Virginia.
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A smallpox epidemic breaks out killing many native Americans on the coast.
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Pilgrims from England found Plymouth Massachusetts.
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Nerthland explorer Henry Hudson claimed New Netherland.
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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.
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King Phillip's war begins in Colonial villages of Massachusetts, between colonists and Navie Americans.
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The war between the French and British begin. Known and the French & Indian war. The war was faught over land in the Ohio Valley
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Sieur de la Salle explored the lower Mississippi Valley river, and claims the valley for France and names it Louisiana in HOnor of the French king Louis XIV
