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AD 1493–1550s Native peoples begin dying from European diseases Diseases unknown to them spread rapidly among Native peoples, who lack immunity to viruses and bacteria ... |
AD 1501 Portuguese explorer kidnaps northeastern Native peoples Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real abducts two shiploads of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other peoples ... |
AD 1503 Foreigners come for cod; carry disease to New England For generations, teeming schools of codfish support Native peoples along the North Atlantic coast. After ... |
AD 1506–18 Viruses move inland along with French traders The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Huron begin exchanging goods with French traders pushing inland from ... |
AD 1520–24 Mid-Atlantic coast peoples meet foreign explorer On the Atlantic coast, Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Lenape (Delaware) peoples encounter Giovanni da Verrazano, ... |
AD 1520–62 ‘Virgin-soil’ epidemics devastate Native populations “Virgin-soil” epidemics sweep through populations with no prior exposure to a particular infectious ... |
AD 1535 Huron healers cure French invaders’ scurvy Huron healers have medicines to treat many ailments, including a concoction made from white cedar to ... |
AD 1616 Yellow fever kills two-thirds of the Wampanoag European traders carry yellow fever to the Wampanoag Nation, located on the Atlantic coast between what ... |
AD 1616–19 Smallpox decimates northeastern Native peoples Smallpox infects traders along the coast of what is now known as New England, and the illness spreads ... |
AD 1620 English Pilgrims settle on Wampanoag land Pilgrims settle at what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod near the abandoned village ... |