Major Events

Edict of Nantes

1598

Champlain colonizes Quebec for France

1608

Louis XIV becomes king of France

1643

La Salle explores Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

1682

King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg)

1689-1697

Queen Anne’s War (War of Spanish Succession)

1702-1713

French found New Orleans

1718

War of Jenkins’s Ear

1739

King George’s War (War of Austrian Succession)

1744-1748

Washington battles French on frontier

1754

Albany Congress

1754

French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

1754-1763

Braddock’s defeat

1755

Pitt emerges as leader of British government

1757

Battle of Quebec

1759

Peace of Paris

1763

Pontiac’s uprising

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763