Timeline of New France history (1534 to 1607)
- Timeline of New France history (1534 to 1607)
| Timeline of New France history |
| Beginnings to 1533 | 1534 to 1607 | 1608 to 1662 |
1530s-1580s
This section of the Timeline of New France history concerns the events between Jacques Cartier's first voyage and the foundation of the Quebec settlement by Samuel de Champlain.
*1534 - On June 30 and July 1, Jacques Cartier wades ashore on a sandy beach at present-day Kildare, Prince Edward Island, declaring "... all the said land is low and plaine, and the fairest that may possibly be seene, full of goodly medowes and trees." [http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/index.php3?number=4017&lang=E]
*1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier plants a cross on Gaspé peninsula and claims it for France.
*1535 - Jacques Cartier's expedition sails along the St. Lawrence River in and stops in a little bay he names baie Saint-Laurent on August 10.
*1535 - On September 6, Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the "île aux Coudres".
*1535 - Jacques Cartier continues to sail down the St. Lawrence River to the village of Hochelega on October 2.
*1537 - On June 9, Pope Paul III proclaims that since the "Sauvages" (Indians) are real humans, they must receive the Roman Catholic faith.
*1541 - Jacques Cartier builds the Charlesbourg-Royal fort, the first permanent European settlement in North America, near the Cap-Rouge River and the St. Lawrence River.
1590s
*1598 - Following the 1521 landing on Sable Island in southeast of present-day Nova Scotia by the Portuguese, the French establish a settlement.
1600s
*1600 - Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit founds a trading post at Tadoussac.
*1603 - Samuel de Champlain takes possession of lands he calls Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland) and Acadie (Acadia).
*1604 - Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain establish an ill-fated settlement on the lands of the Passamaquoddy Nation that they give the religious name of Île-Saint-Croix.
*1605 - Dugua and Champlain move the settlement to the Mi'kmaq Nation lands the French called Habitation at Port-Royal, near Annapolis Royal in present-day Nova Scotia. See Acadia.
*1606 - Marc Lescarbot put on the first European theatrical production in North America. It was called "Le Théâtre de Neptune".
*1607 - On May 14, Captain Christopher Newport founds the first English colony on lands of the Paspahegh Indians in what they called America: Jamestown, Virginia.
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| Timeline of New France history |
| Beginnings to 1533 | 1534 to 1607 | 1608 to 1662 |
See also: New France - French colonial empire - Colonialism
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