This section of thetimeline of New France history concerns the events betweenJacques Cartier's first voyage and the foundation of theQuebec settlement bySamuel de Champlain.

• 1534 - On July 24,Jacques Cartier plants a cross on theGaspé Peninsula and claims it for France.
• 1535 - Cartier's expedition sails along theSt. Lawrence River and stops in a little bay he namesBaie Saint-Laurent on August 10.
• 1535 - On September 6, Cartier is the first European to discoverL'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec.
• 1535 - Cartier continues to sail up the St. Lawrence to the village ofHochelaga on October 2.
• 1537 - On June 9,Pope Paul III proclaims that since theSauvages (Indians) are real humans, they must receive theRoman Catholic faith.
• 1541 - Cartier builds theCharlesbourg-Royal fort, the first permanent European settlement inNorth America, near the confluence of theRivière du Cap Rouge with the St. Lawrence.

• 1598 - Following the 1521 landing onSable Island southeast of present-dayNova Scotia by the Portuguese, the French establish a settlement.

• 1600 -Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit founds a trading post atTadoussac.
• 1603 -Samuel de Champlain takes possession of lands he calls (Newfoundland) andAcadie (Acadia).
• 1604 -Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts andSamuel de Champlain establish an ill-fated settlement on the lands of thePassamaquoddy Nation that they give the religious name of Île-Saint-Croix.
• 1605 - Dugua and Champlain move the settlement toPort Royal in theMi'kmaq Nation lands in present-day Nova Scotia. SeeAcadia.
• 1606 -Marc Lescarbot put on the first European theatrical production in North America. It was calledLe Théâtre de Neptune.
• 1607 - On May 14, CaptainChristopher Newport founds the first English colony on lands of the Paspahegh Indians in what they called America: Jamestown, Virginia.

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