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This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns events up to 1533.
- 13,000 years ago, groups of hunters would have landed in America through the Bering Strait. (This has been the dominant theory since 1927, however, there are other plausible theories being explored today.)
- Paleo-Amerindians, whose presence in Quebec can be traced back 10,000 years, preceded the Algonquian and Iroquoian aboriginal peoples, with whom the Europeans first made contact in the 16th century.
- Some 8,000 years ago, the south of Quebec became habitable when the temperature warmed up on this part of the Earth. The first peoples began to immigrate on what is today the territory of Quebec. They were the ancestors of today's Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples.
