1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war onHurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of theMahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.[1][2]
1660-64: In 1660, Dutch governor-generalPeter Stuyvesant decides to hold Indian children hostage for the behavior of increasingly angry tribespeople. Hostages sold intoCaribbean plantation slavery.[6]
1660: EnglishNavigation Act prohibits foreigners from trading with English colonies.[7][8]
May 1660:Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and about sixty others withstand an attack by over 500 Iroquois at Long Sault. It is traditionally said that the small party fights so well that the Iroquois decide not to attack Montreal.[9][10]
1663: The French Crown takes personal control of Canada from a private company, which becomes a royal province.Louis XIV's brilliant ministerJ. B. Colbert reorganizesNew France directly under royal authority. Administration is divided between a military governor and a more powerfulintendant, both ruling fromQuebec City but under orders fromParis. Thefur trade is granted to a newmonopoly, the Company of the West Indies.[11][12]
1663: New France has a population of about 3,000.[13][14]
1663:Laval organizes the Seminaire du Québec, a college of theology which eventually becomesUniversité Laval (1852).[15][16]
1664: The British invade and conquer the Dutch atNew Amsterdam, renaming it New York. England gains control ofNew Netherland from the Dutch and become allies and trade partners with the Iroquois.[17]
1664: Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.[18][19]
1665-72:Jean Talon (c.1625-94), the firstintendant of New France, sets out to establish New France as a prosperous, expanding colony rivaling the thriving English colonies to the south. He invites many new settlers, including young women. He also tries to diversify the economy beyond furs and to build trade withAcadia and the West Indies. Talon is recalled before he can carry out his policies, however.
1665: TheCarignan-Salières Regiment is sent from France to Quebec to deal with the Iroquois. Many of its members stay on as settlers.
1666: TheCarignan-Salières Regiment destroys five Mohawk villages, eventually leading to peace between the Iroquois and the French.
1667: Firstcensus of New France records 668 families, totalling 3,215 non-native inhabitants.
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