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Samuel de Champlain overseeing the construction of the Habitation de Québec, in 1608. New France had five colonies or territories, each with its own administration: Canada (the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and the St. Lawrence River Valley), Acadia (the Gaspé Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, St. John's Island, and Île Royale-Cape Breton), Hudson Bay (and James Bay), Terre ...
Timeline of New France history in Quebec 1534 to 1607 Succeeded by. 1608 to 1662 This page was last edited on 5 December 2023, at 06:53 (UTC). Text is ...
This is a list of the timelines for the history of northern New France beginning with the first exploration of North America by France through being part of the French colonial empire. Beginnings to 1533 - northern region (present day Canada) 1534 to 1607 - northern region (Canada) 1608 to 1662 - (Quebec region) 1663 to 1759 - (Quebec region)
Louisiana (New France) (1672–1764) French Guiana (1763–present) French West Indies Fort Lachine in New France, 1689; Saint-Domingue (1659–1804, now Haiti) Tobago; Virgin Islands; France Antarctique (1555–1567) Equinoctial France (1612–1615) French Florida (1562–1565) Present-day Dominican Republic (1795–1809) Present-day Suriname
The Conquest of New France (French: La Conquête) – the military conquest of New France by Great Britain during the Seven Years' War of 1756 to 1763 – started with a British campaign in 1758 and ended with the region being put under a British military regime between 1760 and 1763.
In the 19th century, starting with the Occupation of Algeria in 1830, France began to establish a new empire in Africa and Southeast Asia. The following is a list of all countries that were part of the French colonial empires from 1534 ; 491 years ago ( 1534 ) to the present, either entirely or in part, either under French sovereignty or as ...
After Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, it became the capital of New France. Encouraging settlement was difficult, and while some immigration did occur, by 1763 New France only had a population of some 65,000. [133] In 1787, there were 30,000 white colonists on France's colony of Saint-Domingue.
Western Europe in 1525: After Francis I's final defeat in Italy, Emperor Charles V's lands (in yellow) encircle the kingdom of France (the Holy Roman Empire boundary is shown in red) Charles VIII 's invasion of Italy in 1494 began a series of conflicts known as the Italian Wars , during which the Kings of France jostled with the Habsburgs for ...