Timeline of the European colonization of North America - wikipedia Timeline of the European colonization of North America Timeline This is a chronology and timeline of the colonization of North America, with founding dates of selected European settlements. See also European colonization of the Americas. Contents 1 Before Columbus 2 Late Fifteenth century 3 Sixteenth century 4 Seventeenth Century 5 Eighteenth Century 6 See also 7 References Before Columbus 986 : Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but does n't land ( see also Norse colonization of the Americas ). c. 1000 : Norse settle briefly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. c. 1450 : Norse colony in Greenland dies out. 1473 : João Vaz Corte - Real perhaps reaches Newfoundland ; writes about the `` Land of Cod fish '' in his journal. Late fifteenth century 1492 : Columbus reaches The Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola. 1492 : the colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola. 1496 : Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement is built. 1497 : John Cabot reached Newfoundland. 1498 : in his third voyage, Columbus reaches what is now Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago 1498 : La Isabela is abandoned by the Spanish. 1499 : João Fernandes Lavrador maps Labrador and Newfoundland Sixteenth century 1500 : Pedro Álvares Cabral reaches the coast of present - day Brazil 1501 : Corte - Real brothers explored the today Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador 1502 : Columbus sails along the mainland coast south of Yucatán, and reaches present - day Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama 1503 : Las Tortugas noted by Columbus in passage through the Western Caribbean present - day Cayman Islands 1508 : Ponce de Leon founds Caparra on San Juan Bautista ( now Puerto Rico ) 1511 : Conquest of Cuba begins 1513 : Ponce de Leon in Florida 1515 : Conquest of Cuba completed 1517 : Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula 1519 : Founding of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ( Veracruz ) 1521 : Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of Mexico. 1521 : Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida 1524 : Pedro de Alvarado conquests present - day Guatemala and El Salvador 1524 : Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast 1525 : Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay 1526 : Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón tries to settle in South Carolina 1527 : Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John 's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast 1535 : Jacques Cartier reaches Quebec 1536 : Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America. 1538 : Failed Huguenot settlement on St. Kitts in the Caribbean ( destroyed by the Spanish ) 1539 : Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas. 1540 : Coronado travels from Mexico to eastern Kansas. 1540 : Spanish reach the Grand Canyon ( the area is ignored for the next 200 years ) 1541 : Failed French settlement at Charlesbourg - Royal ( Quebec City ) by Cartier and Roberval 1542 : Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on the California coast. 1555 : France Antarctique founded on the island of Serigipe in the Guanabara Bay in Brazil 1559 : Failed Spanish settlement at Pensacola, Florida 1562 : Failed Huguenot settlement in South Carolina ( Charlesfort - Santa Elena site ) 1564 : French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida ( Fort Caroline ) 1565 : Spanish slaughter French ' heretics ' at Fort Caroline. 1565 : Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida 1566 -- 87 : Spanish in South Carolina ( Charlesfort - Santa Elena site ) 1567 : France Antarctique destroyed by Portuguese 1568 : Dutch revolt against Spain. The economic model developed in Holland would define colonial policies in the next two centuries 1570 : Failed Spanish settlement on Chesapeake Bay ( Ajacán Mission ) 1576 : Martin Frobisher on the coast of Labrador and Baffin Island 1579 : Sir Francis Drake claims New Albion. 1583 : England formally claims Newfoundland ( Humphrey Gilbert ) 1585 : Failed English settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina ( Lost Colony ). 1598 : Failed French settlement on Sable Island off Nova Scotia 1598 : Spanish reach Northern New Mexico 1600 : By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers. North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated outpost in northern New Mexico. Exploration of the interior was largely abandoned after the 1540s. Around Newfoundland 500 or more boats annually were fishing for cod and some fishermen were trading for furs, especially at Tadoussac on the Saint Lawrence. Seventeenth Century 1604 -- Acadia -- French 1605 -- Port Royal -- French 1607 -- Jamestown -- English 1607 -- Popham Colony -- English 1608 -- Quebec -- French 1610 -- Cuper 's Cove -- English 1610 -- Kecoughtan, Virginia -- English 1610 -- Santa Fe -- Spanish 1611 -- Henricus -- English 1612 -- Bermuda - English 1615 -- Fort Nassau -- Dutch 1615 -- Renews, Newfoundland -- English 1618 -- Bristol 's Hope -- English 1620 -- St. John 's, Newfoundland -- English 1620 -- Plymouth Colony -- English 1621 -- Nova Scotia -- Scottish 1622 -- Province of Maine -- English 1623 -- Portsmouth -- English 1623 -- Stage Point -- English 1623 -- Dover -- English 1623 -- Pannaway -- English 1623 -- New Castle -- English 1623 -- Fort Nassau -- Dutch 1624 -- Governors Island -- Dutch 1625 -- Cape Breton -- Scottish 1625 -- New Amsterdam -- Dutch 1626 -- Salem -- English 1630 -- Massachusetts Bay Colony -- English 1630 -- Pavonia -- Dutch 1631 -- Saint John, New Brunswick -- English 1632 -- Williamsburgh -- English 1633 -- Fort Hoop -- Dutch 1633 -- Windsor, Connecticut -- English 1634 -- Maryland Colony -- English 1634 -- Wethersfield -- English 1635 -- Territory of Sagadahock -- English 1635 -- Saybrook Colony - English 1636 -- Providence Plantations -- English 1636 -- Connecticut Colony -- English 1638 -- New Haven Colony -- English 1638 -- Fort Christina -- Swedish 1638 -- Exeter -- English 1638 -- Hampton, New Hampshire - English 1639 -- Bridgeport, Connecticut -- English 1639 -- Newport -- English 1639 -- San Marcos -- Spanish 1640 -- New Stockholm -- Swedish 1640 -- Swedesboro - Swedish 1642 -- Montreal -- French 1651 -- Fort Casimir -- Dutch 1652 - York, Maine 1653 - Biddeford, Maine 1658 - Scarborough, Maine 1660 -- Bergen -- Dutch 1665 -- Elizabethtown -- English 1666 -- Newark - English 1668 -- Sault Ste. Marie ( Michigan ) - French, 1669 -- English Neighborhood -- Dutch, English, 1670 -- Charleston -- English 1678 -- New Paltz, New York -- French 1679 -- Dundee Island - New Jersey -- Dutch 1680 -- Fort Crevecoeur ( Peoria, IL ) -- French 1682 -- Pennsylvania -- English 1683 ? -- Fort Saint Louis ( Illinois ) - French 1683 -- East New Jersey -- Scottish 1684 -- Stuarts Town, Carolina -- Scottish 1685 -- Fort Saint Louis ( Texas ) - French 1686 -- Arkansas Post - French 1691 -- Fort Pimiteoui ( Fort Crevecoeur, Peoria, IL ) -- French 1698 -- Pensacola, Florida -- Spanish 1699 -- Louisiana -- French Eighteenth Century 1701 -- Cornwallis - French 1702 -- Mobile - French 1704 -- Delaware separated from PA 1714 -- Germanna, VA - Germans from Hessen - Nassau 1717 -- Germanna, VA - Germans from Baden - Wurttemberg 1718 -- New Orleans -- French 1718 -- San Antonio -- Spanish 1721 -- Germanna, VA - Germans 1721 -- Greenland -- Danish 1729 -- Baltimore - British 1733 -- Province of Georgia -- British 1734 -- Culpeper, VA - Germans 1738 -- Culpeper, VA ; some to Bethlehem, PA - Germans 1763 -- St. Louis ( Missouri ) - French 1769 -- San Diego -- Spanish 1770 -- Monterey -- Spanish 1775 -- Tucson -- Spanish 1776 -- San Francisco -- Spanish 1777 -- San Jose -- Spanish 1781 -- Los Angeles -- Spanish 1784 -- Kodiak Island -- Russian 1787 -- US constitution written - American 1791 -- Santa Cruz -- Spanish See also History of Canada portal Mexico portal United States portal New Spain portal New France portal Colonialism portal British colonization of the Americas French colonization of the Americas Spanish colonization of the Americas List of North American cities by year of foundation New Netherland settlements List of French possessions and colonies Former colonies and territories in Canada Chronology of Western colonialism Timeline of imperialism References Jump up ^ Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America ( 1971 ). Jump up ^ William Langer, ed... An Encyclopedia of World History ( 5th ed. 1973 ) Jump up ^ Melvin E. Page, ed. Colonialism : An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia ( 3 vol. 2003 ) ; vol. 2 pages 647 - 831 has a detailed chronology Jump up ^ Birgitta Wallace, `` The Norse in Newfoundland : L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland. '' Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 19.1 ( 2005 ). online Jump up ^ Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the ocean sea. '' A live of Christopher Columbus ( 1942 ). Jump up ^ Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del Mar Ocehi 1493 : Puerto Rico f4f4g4g5ej4uik86ik8ano ( General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea ), Madrid, 1601 - 1615 Jump up ^ First Arrivals, http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/settlement/text1/text1read.htm Jump up ^ Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America ( 1971 ). Jump up ^ `` GOMES, ESTEVÃO - Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online ''. Retrieved 18 March 2012. Jump up ^ Douglas Hunter ( 31 August 2010 ). Half Moon : Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 136. ISBN 978 - 1 - 60819 - 098 - 0. Retrieved 18 March 2012. Jump up ^ Joseph Dow ( 1894 ). History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire : From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892. Jump up ^ http://nynjctbotany.org/njnbtofc/dundeeislandpk.html Jump up ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=ndAwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Hartman+Michielse&source=bl&ots=IACxmrPnnm&sig=9lu6nQJnRF7TA6szZ8vdbI06SM8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxz-H-m9jWAhVL7mMKHS1yA0oQ6AEIODAG#v=onepage&q=Hartman%20Michielse&f=false Former colonies and territories in Canada Norse Named territories Vinland Sites : L'Anse aux Meadows French Claims New France Acadia Isle St - Jean Île Royale Canada Domaine du roy Louisiana Pays d'en Haut Terre Neuve Important sites Port Royal Quebec Trois - Rivières Montreal Louisbourg Plaisance List of towns List of forts Spanish Claims New Spain Important sites Fort San Miguel, Nootka Sound Expeditions Newfoundland Pacific Northwest Scottish Claims Nova Scotia ( 1621 ) Sites Port Royal Colony Russian Claims Russian America American Claims Oregon Country English & British Claims Newfoundland ( 1583 ) New Albion ( ? ) Rupert 's Land Nova Scotia ( 1710 ) Quebec Lower and Upper Canada New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Cape Breton United Canada New Caledonia Columbia District Queen Charlotte Islands Vancouver Island British Columbia ( 1858 -- 66 ) British Columbia ( 1866 -- 71 ) Stickeen North - Western Territory ( districts ) Red River Important sites Cuper 's Cove Avalon ( 1620 ) York Factory Halifax Victoria Fort Langley List of HBC sites Norwegian Claims Sverdrup Islands Related Territorial evolution after 1867 Areas disputed by Canada and the United States Proposed provinces and territories of Canada Population of Canada Portal WikiProject Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_European_colonization_of_North_America&oldid=865248076 '' Categories : Timelines of North American history Colonization of the Americas Hidden categories : Articles with short description Use mdy dates from April 2012 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Tagalog 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 22 October 2018, at 18 : 17 ( UTC ). 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Question: first permanent european settlement in the new world
Answer: Santo Domingo