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Nov 4, 1453
Turks captured Constantinople
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Nov 4, 1497
John Cabot, an Italian sailing for the English king, had raised the English flag, probably in Newfoundland
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Nov 4, 1524
Italian sailor named Verrazano, who explored the coastline of North America from Florida as far north as modern Nova Scotia
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Mar 5, 1534
Jacques Cartier began a series of explorations
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Mar 29, 1535
Cartier's second voyage
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Feb 26, 1567
Champlain was born at Brouage in western France
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The population increased from about two thousand
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King Louis XIV took personal control of the government in France