Time

Canada

North America

United States

BC

30 000

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First North Americans cross

Bering Strait into North America

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8000

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End of last Ice Age

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7000

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Development of agriculture

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AD

50

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First Mayan writing in Central America

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250

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Mound builders settle in

Mississippi valley

900

Early Inuit Thule culture

Moves east to hunt whales

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1000

Vikings reach Labrador coast

And Newfoundland

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1400

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Iroquois Five Nations formed

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1492

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First voyage of Columbus to

The New World

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1534

Jacques Cartier discovers the

St. Lawrence waterway

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1607

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Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

1608

Founding of Quebec by

Samuel de Champlain

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1619

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First shipload of slaves and

House of Burgesses appear in Virginia

1620

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Founding of New England Pilgrims

1625

First Jesuit missionaries arrive in New France

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1639

Marie de l’Incarnation and

Ursulines found first Canadian Convent

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1663

Royal Government established in

New France

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1670

Founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company

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1676

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Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia

1692

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Witchcraft trials in Salem

1713

France cedes Acadia, Newfoundland and Hudson Bay to Britain

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1739-1741

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The Great Awakening among American Protestants

1745

British capture Fortress Louisbourg

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1754

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Beginning of the Intercolonial War in Ohio Valley

English under George Washington driven from Fort Necessity in Ohio country

1755

Expulsion of the Acadians

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1759

British defeat French at Quebec on the Plains of Abraham

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1760

Capitulation of Montreal and fall of New France

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1763

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End of the Seven Years’ War in Europe

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