New France - Timeline

Jacques Cartier first explores the St. Lawrence

François Gravé Du Pont founds Tadoussac

Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City

Récollet friars are first transported to New France

Quebec City is temporarily captured by the British

French Jesuits arrive back in New France and begin conversion missions with the Huron

A plague of smallpox annihilates the Huron

The Huron civilization collapses

The Filles du Roi program begins

Jean Talon is appointed first intendent of New France

The Company of One Hundred Associates is dissolved

French claims over North America are extended south to modern Louisiana

Queen Anne's War begins

Great Peace of Montreal signed between the French and the Iroquois

Acadia is ceded to Britain

Louisbourg is founded

New Orleans is founded in far southern New France

Halifax is founded

Mass Deportation of Acadians by the occupying British

Seven Years' War begins between Britain and France

George Washington pushed back by French in the Ohio Valley

British attack Fort Carillon, where they are defeated

After months of siege, the French meet the British in open battle, which they lose badly

Treaty of Paris signed and North American New France signed away to Britain

The Carignan-Salières Regiment, an elite French military unit, is used against the Iroquois

Chemin du Roy inaugurated

Montreal surrenders to the British invaders

Samuel de Champlain founds Port-Royal in Acadia

Champlain kills two Iroquois chieftans while helping his new native allies

Company of One Hundred Associates founded

Récollets and Jesuits in New France are forced to return to Europe

Christopher Colombus first sets foot in the New World