1200
State
The approximate date of an Algonkin village on the Genesee River at Oak Hill (later part of Rochester's southeast neighborhood).
Jan 12
Guyford Dufflo Bononieufis of Italy reportedly makes a violin. Three hundred and fifty
years later it will turn up in the possession of C. Chauncey Orsburn of St. Helena, New
York.
1535
French explorer Jacques Cartier hears of curative waters to be found in the future Saratoga Springs area, while exploring the St. Lawrence River. He may also hear of a great falls (Niagara) to the west.
1558
England
The Rochester Family is granted the use of a family coat of arms.
1565
State
The approximate date the Seneca in the western Finger Lakes begin branching off, migrating both to the northeast and the northwest.
1570
State
The Huron prophet and philosopher Deganawidah, assisted by Ha-yo-went'-ha (Hiawatha), unites the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga and Seneca tribes into the Iroquois Confederacy.
1600
State
The population of the five nations of the Iroquois is somewhere under 20,000. The Seneca account for under 10,000. ** From now on most kettles traded with the St. Lawrence area Indians are made of brass, rather than copper.
1603
Champlain hears of a great waterfall (Niagara) at the western end of Lake Ontario.
1604
France
King Henry of Navarre grants to a favorite all North American lands north of the 40th parallel (New France).
1609
Canada
Champlain learns from the Hurons and Algonquins of a large lake to the west (Ontario).
1610
State
The approximate date Etienne Brulé, sent west by Champlain with furs traded from the Huron, passes through the Genesee River area and is captured by Senecas and tortured, saved only when a thunderstorm frightens them and they release him. He winters over in western Ontario.
1612
Samuel de Champlain, working from notes made by his scout Etienne Brulé, makes the first map of Lake Ontario, showing the Genesee River.
1615
Oct 8
Samuel de Champlain discovers Oneida Lake.
Canada
Champlain, accompanying Etienne Brulé, traces the St. Larwence and Ottawa rivers to Lake Huron, becomes the first white to discover the Great Lakes. He reportedly meets some Ojibwe at a Huron camp. When he returns to the New York area he accompanies a band of Hurons on an attack against the Iroquois near Oneida Lake at Nichols Pond, and is wounded. He winters over with the Hurons. Brulé explores the area around present-day Toronto and then south of Lake Ontario, passes through the Chemung Valley near Big Flats, heading for the future Waverly area. ** Champlain and Joseph le Caron discover Lake Ontario, cross from the future Kingston area to the area of the future Oswego, New York.
© 2009 David Minor / Eagles Byte
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