Timeline of colonization of North America
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This is a timeline of colonization of North America, recording the founding dates of the European settlements.
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[edit] Pre-Columbian
- c.1000 - Viking colonization of Greenland, Helluland (possibly Baffin Island), Markland (perhaps Labrador) and Vinland (probably Newfoundland). The Greenland colony lasted until the 15th century, but the estimated duration of the only known site at the Gulf of Saint Lawrence is estimated to be less than a decade.
- c.1350 - The Norse Western Settlement in Greenland is abandoned.
[edit] Sixteenth Century
- 1564 - Fort Caroline - French
- 1565 - San AgustÃn - Spanish
- 1585 - Roanoke Colony - British
- 1598 - Sable Island - French
- 1600 - Tadoussac - French
[edit] Seventeenth Century
- 1602 - San Miguel - Spanish
- 1604 - Acadia - French
- 1605 - Port Royal - French
- 1607 - Jamestown Settlement - British
- 1607 - Popham Colony - British
- 1608 - Quebec - French
- 1610 - Cuper's Cove - British
- 1610 - Kecoughtan, Virginia - British
- 1610 - Santa Fe - Spanish
- 1615 - Fort Nassau - Dutch
- 1615 - Renews, Newfoundland - British
- 1618 - Bristol's Hope - British
- 1620 - St. John's, Newfoundland - British
- 1620 - Plymouth Colony - British
- 1621 - Nova Scotia - Scottish
- 1622 - Province of Maine - British
- 1623 - Portsmouth - British
- 1623 - Stage Point - British
- 1623 - Dover - British
- 1623 - Pannaway - British
- 1623 - New Castle - British
- 1624 - Governors Island - Dutch
- 1625 - Cape Breton - Scottish
- 1625 - New Amsterdam - Dutch
- 1625 - Fort Nassau - Dutch
- 1626 - Salem - British
- 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony - British
- 1631 - Saint John, New Brunswick - British
- 1632 - Williamsburg, Virginia - British
- 1633 - Windsor, Connecticut
- 1634 - Maryland Colony - British
- 1634 - Wethersfield - British
- 1635 - Territory of Sagadahock - British
- 1636 - Providence Plantations - British
- 1636 - Connecticut Colony - British
- 1638 - New Haven Colony - British
- 1638 - New Sweden - Swedish
- 1638 - Exeter - British
- 1639 - Bridgeport, Connecticut - British
- 1639 - Newport - British
- 1639 - San Marcos - Spanish
- 1640? - New Stockholm - Swedish
- 1640? - Swedesboro- Swedish
- 1651 - Fort Casimir - Dutch
- 1670 - Charleston - British
- 1678 - New Paltz, New York - French
- 1682 - Pennsylvania - British
- 1683 - East New Jersey - Scottish
- 1684 - Stuarts Town, Carolina - Scottish
- 1684 - Fort Saint Louis- French
- 1698 - Pensacola, Florida - Spanish
- 1699 - Louisiana - French
[edit] Eighteenth Century
- 1718 - New Orleans - French
- 1718 - San Antonio - Spanish
- 1721 - Greenland - Danish
- 1733 - Province of Georgia - British
- 1784 - Kodiak Island - Russian
