Timeline of the European colonization of North America From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Chronology of the colonization of North America) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve th is article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be ch allenged and removed. (December 2009) This is a chronology of the colonization of North America, with founding dates o f European settlements. See also European colonization of the Americas. Contents [hide] 1 Before Columbus 2 14921600 3 Seventeenth Century 4 Eighteenth Century 5 See also 6 References Before Columbus[edit] 986: Norse reach Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, b ut doesn't land. circa 1000: Vikings, including Leif Ericson, his brother, and also Thorfinn Karl sefni at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. 1450-1480?: last Norsemen in Greenland 14921600[edit] 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas. 1493: Start of permanent settlement (La Isabela on northern Hispaniola) 1497: John Cabot may have reached Newfoundland. 1502: Columbus sails along the mainland coast south of Yucatán 1511: Conquest of Cuba begins 1513: Ponce de Leon in Florida 1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of Mexico. 1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast 1525 Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay[1][2] 1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón tries to settle in South Carolina 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other place s on the coast 1535: Jacques Cartier reaches Quebec 1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering the North American Sout hwest. 1538: Failed Huguenot settlement on St. Kitts in the Caribbean (destroyed by the Spanish) 1539: Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas 1540: Coronado travels from Mexico to eastern Kansas 1540: Spanish reach the Grand Canyon (the area is ignored for the next 200 years ) 1541: Failed French settlement at Quebec City (Cartier and Roberval) 1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on the California coast. 1559: Failed Spanish settlement at Pensacola, Florida 1562: Failed Huguenot settlement in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site ) 1564: French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida (Fort Caroline) 1565: Spanish slaughter French 'heretics' at Fort Caroline. 1565: Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida 156687: Spanish in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site) 1568: Dutch revolt against Spain. The economic model developed in Holland would define colonial policies in the next two centuries 1570: Failed Spanish settlement on Chesapeake Bay (Ajacán Mission) 1576: Martin Frobisher on the coast of Labrador and Baffin Island 1579: Sir Francis Drake claims New Albion. 1583: England formally claims Newfoundland (Humphrey Gilbert) 1585: Failed English settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina (Lost Colony). 1598: Failed French settlement on Sable Island off Nova Scotia 1598: Spanish reach Northern New Mexico 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers . North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated out post in northern New Mexico. Exploration of the interior was largely abandoned a fter the 1540s. Around Newfoundland 500 or more boats annually were fishing for cod and some fishermen were trading for furs, especially at Tadoussac on the Sai nt Lawrence. Seventeenth Century[edit] 1604 Acadia French 1605 Port Royal French 1607 Jamestown English 1607 Popham Colony English 1608 Quebec French 1610 Cuper's Cove English 1610 Kecoughtan, Virginia English 1610 Santa Fe Spanish 1611 Henricus English 1612 - Bermuda - English 1615 Fort Nassau Dutch 1615 Renews, Newfoundland English 1618 Bristol's Hope English Map of the northern part and parts of the southern parts of the America, from th e mouth of the Saint Laurent River to the Island of Cayenne,with the new discove ries of the Mississippi (or Colbert) River. This map shows the results of the ex peditions of Father Marquette and L. Jolliet (1673) and the Cavelier de la Salle expedition in the Mississippi valley. The map shows three forts built between 1 679 and 1680: Conty fort (near Niagara Falls), Miamis Fort (south of Michigan la ke), and Crèvecur fort (Left bank of the Illinois River). Mississippi river course is only shown downstream of Ohio confluence. 1620 St. John's, Newfoundland English 1620 Plymouth Colony English 1621 Nova Scotia Scottish 1622 Province of Maine English 1623 Portsmouth English 1623 Stage Point English 1623 Dover English 1623 Pannaway English 1623 New Castle English 1623 Fort Nassau Dutch 1624 Governors Island Dutch 1625 Cape Breton Scottish 1625 New Amsterdam Dutch 1626 Salem English 1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony English 1630 -Pavonia Dutch 1631 Saint John, New Brunswick English 1632 Williamsburgh English 1633 Fort Hoop Dutch 1633 Windsor, Connecticut English 1634 Maryland Colony English 1634 Wethersfield English 1635 Territory of Sagadahock English 1636 Providence Plantations English 1636 Connecticut Colony English 1638 New Haven Colony English 1638 Fort Christina Swedish 1638 Exeter English 1638 - Hampton, New Hampshire - English[3] 1639 Bridgeport, Connecticut English 1639 Newport English 1639 San Marcos Spanish 1640? New Stockholm Swedish 1640? Swedesboro- Swedish 1642 Montreal French 1651 Fort Casimir Dutch 1660 Bergen Dutch 1665 Elizabethtown English 1666 Newark- English 1669 English Neighborhood Dutch, English, 1670 Charleston English 1678 New Paltz, New York French 1682 Pennsylvania English 1683 East New Jersey Scottish 1684 Stuarts Town, Carolina Scottish 1684? Fort Saint Louis (Illinois)- French 1684? Fort Saint Louis (Texas)- French 1698 Pensacola, Florida Spanish 1699 Louisiana French Eighteenth Century[edit] 1714 - Germanna, VA - Germans from Hessen-Nassau 1717 - Germanna, VA - Germans from Baden-Wurttemberg 1718 New Orleans French 1718 San Antonio Spanish 1721 - Germanna, VA - Germans 1721 Greenland Danish 1733 Province of Georgia British 1734 - Culpeper, VA - Germans 1738 - Culpeper, VA; some to Bethlehem, PA -Germans 1769 Santa Cruz Spanish 1769 San Diego Spanish 1770 Monterey Spanish 1775 Tucson Spanish 1776 San Francisco Spanish 1781 Los Angeles Spanish 1784 Kodiak Island Russian See also[edit] Portal icon History of Canada portal Portal icon Mexico portal Portal icon United States portal Portal icon New Spain portal Portal icon New France portal Portal icon Colonialism portal List of North American cities by year of foundation New Netherland settlements List of French possessions and colonies Former colonies and territories in Canada References[edit] Jump up ^ "GOMES, ESTEVÃO - Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online". Retrieved 18 March 2012. Jump up ^ Douglas Hunter (31 August 2010). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyag e That Redrew the Map of the New World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-60819-098-0. Retrieved 18 March 2012. Jump up ^ Dow, Joseph (1893). History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892. Salem, Mass.: Salem Press Publis hing and Printing Co. 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