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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LEADING EVENTS. 1492 Columbus discovers the West Indies. 1497 Cabot discovers Newfoundland. 1513 Balboa discovers the Pacific. 1520 Magelhaens passes the Straits. 1521 Cortes captures Mexico. 1533 Pizarro enters Cusco. 1534. '35, '41 Cartier's voyages to Canada. 1540 Roberval's voyage. French fort planted at Quebec. 1562 The French occupy Port Royal. 1576, '77, '78 Frobisher's voyages to the North. 1577 Sir Humphry Gilbert obtains a general patent of colonisation. 1577-80 Drake's voyage round the world. 1578 Gilbert's first expedition. 1583 Newfoundland occupied by Gilbert 1584 Sir W. Ralegh obtains a charter. Amidas and Barlow land in North Carolina. 1585 Grenville's expedition to Virginia. Gilbert's second expedition. Ralegh in Guiana. 1585, '6, '7 Davis's voyages to the North. 1587 First English colony planted in Virginia. 1595 Ralegh again in Guiana. 1603-4 Champlain's first voyage. 1605 French settlement at Port Royal in Acadia. 1606 Expeditions of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Virginia Company created. 1607 Colony planted in Virginia. 1608 First permanent French colony planted in Canada. Quebec founded. 1617 Ralegh's last expedition to Guiana. 1619 Slavery introduced in Virginia. 1620 Dutch trading-station established in New Netherlands. Virginia Company re-organised. Calvert's colony in Newfoundland. The Pilgrim Fathers found a colony at New Plymouth. 1627 The Company of New France and the Company of the Isles of America established. 1629 The Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay obtain a charter. Sir R. Heath obtains a grant of land afterwards called "Carolina." 532