Timeline of New France history (1534 to 1607)

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Timeline of New France history
Beginnings to 1533	1534 to 1607	1608 to 1662

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.

1 1530s
2 1540s
3 1580s
4 1590s
5 1600s

[edit] 1530s

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."[1]
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.

[edit] 1540s

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.

[edit] 1580s

1581 - From 1581 to 1584, numerous French merchants organize expeditions to explore the territory of Canada in hopes of profiting from the abundant supply of fur.

[edit] 1590s

1598 - Following the 1521 landing on Sable Island in southeast of present-day Nova Scotia by the Portuguese, the French establish a settlement.

[edit] 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.