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c. 1640: Beaver s and Otter s nearly exterminated in Iroquois country. To expand territory, Iroquois launch decades-long "Beaver Wars" against Huron and other tribes.

1640: Lake Erie discovered.

is founded by the Sieur De Maisonneuve .

1644: Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising against Jamestown, Virginia ; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.

1644 Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.

1645-63: Under the proprietorship of Richelieu 's company's colonial agent, the Community of Habitants, the new French colony takes shape along the St. Lawrence .

1648-49: After the Iroquois brutally ravage Huron country and disperse the Huron nation north of the St. Lawrence, they turn against New France itself.

1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650-51), Erie (1653-56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680-84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.

1649: Attacks by the Iroquois disperse the Huron; disrupts fur trade over the next fifteen years.

1649: The Jesuit father Jean De Brébeuf is Martyr ed during Iroquois raids on the Hurons at St-Ignace ( March 16 ).

1649: The Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie Among The Hurons abandon the mission, burning it to the ground and taking refuge at Christian Island ( June 16 )