Timeline of New France history (1534–1607)

This section of the timeline of New France history concerns the events between Jacques Cartier's first voyage and the foundation of the Quebec settlement by Samuel de Champlain.

1530s-1580s[edit]

1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and claims it for France.
1535 - Cartier's expedition sails along the St. Lawrence River in and stops in a little Bro he names Baie Saint-Laurent on August 10.
1535 - On September 6, Cartier is the first European to discover L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec.
1535 - Cartier continues to sail down the St. Lawrence to the village of Hochelaga on October 2.
1537 - On June 9, Pope Paul III proclaims that since the Sauvages (Indians) are real humans, they must receive the Roman Catholic faith.
1541 - Cartier builds the Charlesbourg-Royal fort, the first permanent European settlement in North America, near the Cap-Rouge River and the St. Lawrence.

1598 - Following the 1521 landing on Sable Island in southeast of present-day Nova Scotia by the Portuguese, the French establish a settlement.

1600 - Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit founds a trading post at Tadoussac.
1603 - Samuel de Champlain takes possession of lands he calls (Newfoundland) and Acadie (Acadia).
1604 - Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain establish an ill-fated settlement on the lands of the Passamaquoddy Nation that they give the religious name of Île-Saint-Croix.
1605 - Dugua and Champlain move the settlement to the Mi'kmaq Nation lands the French called Habitation at Port-Royal, near Annapolis Royal in present-day Nova Scotia. See Acadia.
1606 - Marc Lescarbot put on the first European theatrical production in North America. It was called Le Théâtre de Neptune.
1607 - On May 14, Captain Christopher Newport founds the first English colony on lands of the Paspahegh Indians in what they called America: Jamestown, Virginia.

Preceded by Beginnings to 1533	Timeline of New France history in Quebec 1534 to 1607	Succeeded by 1608 to 1662