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, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.

, explores the River Named For Him . Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a Mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative Fur Trade begins.

lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario , Huron and Superior .

builds fur post at Montreal .

is named Governor of New France .

of Newfoundland kill 37 French fisherman. The French retaliate by arming the Micmac , traditional enemies of the Beothuk, and offering bounties for scalps. The Beothuk are soon virtually exterminated.

sacked by Samuel Argall and his Pirate s from Virginia .

is founded.

Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.

missionaries arrive in Canada.

1615 : Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.

epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River .

, thus becoming the first true '' Habitant '' (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).