Timeline of Quebec history (1534 to 1607)

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

Table of contents

1 1530s 2 1540s 3 1550s 4 1560s 5 1570s 6 1580s 7 1590s 8 1600s

1530s

• 1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier plants a cross in the Gaspé peninsula.
• 1535 - Jacques Cartier sails into the St. Lawrence River and stops in a little bay he names baie Saint-Laurent on August 10.
• 1535 - On September 6, Jacques Cartier "discovers" the île aux Coudres.
• 1535 - Jacques Cartier sails up to Hochelaga on October 2.
• 1537 - On June 9, Pope Paul III proclaims that since the Sauvages are real humans, they are apt to receive the Christian faith.

• 1541 - Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval is made lieutenant of New France and is given orders to establish a colony in America.
• 1541 - Cartier founds Charlesbourg Royal, first French establishment in America.

• 1555 - With the outbreak of the French Wars of Religion in France, Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon flees persecution by the Catholic Monarch and establishes a Protestant colony named "Antarctic France" in what is today Brazil.

• 1560 - The Portuguese destroy the Antartic France colony, following many conflicts between Protestants and Catholics.
• 1562 - The French attempt to colonize what is today the State of Florida. The colonization does not succeed.

1580s

• 1581 - From 1581 to 184, numerous French merchants organize expeditions to explore Canada in hope of finding fur.

1600s

• 1600 - Pierre de Chauvin, Sieur de Tonnetuit founds a trading post at Tadoussac.
• 1603 - Samuel de Champlain takes possession of Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland) and Acadie (Acadia).
• 1605 - Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain found Port Royal, today Annapolis in 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 in America: Jamestown, Virginia.

Beginnings to 1533

1534 to 1607 History of Quebec

1608 to 1662

See also: New France - French colonial empire - Colonialism