Timeline of the European colonization of North America

This is a chronology and timeline of the European colonization of the Americas, with founding dates of selected European settlements. == Pre–Columbus == 986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas).

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