Discovery and Exploration 1492-1607
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The New World
In 1564 the French Protestants (Huguenots) attempted to colonize North America, building a colony nearby the modern day Jacksonville, Florida. The Spanish had already staked claim in that locality and soon rid the area of the French The London Company sent out explorers in 1606. [1] Prior to this the Basque, English and French fishing fleets were frequenting the coasts from Cape Cod to Newfoundland.
- 1492: Christopher Columbus sails across the Atlantic Ocean and reaches an island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1513: Juan Ponce de León explores the Florida coast.
- 1524: Giovanni da Verrazano explores the coast from Carolina north to Nova Scotia, enters New York harbor.
- 1540: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores the Southwest.
- 1565: St. Augustine, Florida, the first town established by Europeans in America is founded by the Spanish. Later burned by the English in 1586. [2]
Websites
- Basque Americans gives an overview of the Basque people's origins and settlement patterns.
- Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees is a document written in about 1908. It contains information about French Huguenots and their flight to America. It also features several of the earliest French Huguenot immigrants and their descendants.
Sources
- ↑ Summers, Lewis Preston Summer. History of Southwest Virginia 1746-1786, Washington County 1777-1870 Edition: illustrated. Published by The Overmountain Press, 1989. ISBN 0932807437, 9780932807434. 921 pages; page 12. Full text available at Google Books
- ↑ George Rainsford Fairbanks, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Solomon Alofsen, The history and antiquities of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, founded A.D. 1565. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Huntington Free Library. Published by C.B. Norton, 1858. Original from Oxford University. Digitized Dec 6, 2006. 200 pages. Full text can be found at Google Books