| Year |
History |
| 1535 |
Probably encountered
by Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga, present site of Montreal |
| 1541 |
Soon abandoned
Hochelaga probably due to conflicts with Iroquois |
| 1570 |
Huroin Confederacy
formed combining four Huron or Laurentian Iroquoian tribes |
| 1608 |
Samuel de Champlain
founded Quebec |
| 1609 |
Joined Champlain,
Montagnais, and Algonkin in attack on Mohawk |
| 1610 |
Mohawk forced to
abandon St. Lawrence Valley |
| 1611 |
Etienne Brule'
wintered with Huron |
| 1614 |
Signed a formal
treaty with the French |
| 1615 |
Joined Champlain and
Algonkin in attack on Oneida and Onondaga villages; French Franciscan
missionaries went into the St. Lawrence Valley; Recollect priest, Father
Joseph Le Caron, accompanied Champlain on his visit to the Huron
villages |
| 1616 |
Became middlemen in
French fur trading |
| 1623 |
Le Caron mission
failed |
| 1625 |
Jesuit missionaries
arrived in region |
| 1626 |
Jesuit mission failed |
| 1629 |
Étienne Brulé had
betrayed Champlain by guiding the British to Quebec; Quebec surrendered
to a fleet commanded by Sir David Kirke; beginning of Beaver Wars driven
by Iroquois |
| 1632 |
Treaty of St.
Germaine-en-Laye returned Quebec to France; Brule' found refuge among
the Huron until he was killed and eaten following an argument |
| 1634 |
Jesuits built their
first mission at Ihonatiria |
| 1635 |
Major epidemics of
influenza, measles, and smallpox; considerable conversion to
Christianity dividing many communities; Seneca inflicted major defeat on
Huron |
| 1637 |
Jesuit mission moved
to the Huron capital of Ossossane |
| 1639 |
Mission relocated to
Ste. Marie; 600 Wenro took refuge with Huron after destruction of their
tribe by the Iroquois |
| 1640 |
Heavily armed
Iroquois increased attacks on Huron |
| 1641 |
Seneca, Cayuga, and
Onondaga concentrated attacks on the Huron |
| 1642 |
Iroquois began
attacking Huron canoes delivering furs to Montreal |
| 1644 |
Iroquois captured
three large Huron canoe flotillas |
| 1647 |
Iroquois destroyed
the Arendaronon Huron villages |
| 1648 |
250-man Huron canoe
flotilla fought its way past the Iroquois blockade and reached Quebec;
during their absence, Iroquois destroyed the mission-village at St.
Joseph and killing the Jesuit priest |
| 1649 |
2,000 Mohawk and
Seneca destroyed the mission-villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis with
hundreds killed and captured and two Jesuit priests tortured to death;
main village removed to Christian Island in Georgian Bay raising island
population to 6,000; Attignawantan Huron had fled west and took refuge
with the Tionontati only to have the Iroquois attack both of them; 1,000
Attignawantan and Tionontati fled north to Macinack Island |
| 1651 |
Mackinack bands fled
to an island in Green Bay with the Ottawa; the Seneca defeated the
Neutrals and the Tahontaenrat Huron a few of whom retreated to join the
tribes on the island in Green Bay; others who surrendered were adopted
by the Seneca; a truce with the Iroquois allowed French Jesuits to
establish missions in the Iroquois villages for Huron converts adopted
by the Iroquois |
| 1654 |
Trois Rivieres band
moved to Christian Island |
| 1656 |
Confederated Huron,
Neutrals, and Tionontati became known as Wyandot |
