Champlain founds Quebec
The birth of New France and French-speaking Canada
On 3 July 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded a fortified fur-trading post on the St. Lawrence River. Only 8 of the 28 settlers survived the first winter. Quebec became the capital of New France, which stretched to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. It is one of North America's oldest cities, and French has been spoken there for more than four centuries.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
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- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 20 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 10 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 8 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 2 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 10 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
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Asia
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- Henry IV (aged 55)
- James I (aged 42)