Timeline of Quebec history (beginnings–1533)
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This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns events through 1533.
Prehistory
- Iroquoianaboriginal peoples, with whom the Europeans first made contact in the 16th century.
- Some 8,500 years ago, the south of Quebec became habitable as it grew warmer. The first peoples began to immigrate on what is today the Iroquoianpeoples.
15th century
- 1492 - For the Queen of Castile (later, Spain), Christopher Columbus crosses the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1497 - John Cabot reaches the island of Newfoundland, which he claims for England. Jacques Cartier is born on Dec. 31st 1491.
16th century
- 1524 - King Francis I of France explores the East coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland as well as parts of New York Harbor. The French would take narrow land ports of the Boroughs Queens and Brooklyn from the upper and lower parts of the harbor until 1609 when the British and the Dutchtake control of it from the French.
- 1525 and after - St. Lawrence estuary and the Saguenay River.