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1492
 
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A French privateer off the west coast of Ghana is the first to plunder a Portuguese vessel carrying home African gold     
1534
 
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French explorer Jacques Cartier charts the Gulf of St Lawrence and, in 1525, explores up the river as far as Montreal       
1535
 
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Cartier, welcomed by the Huron Indians, gives their island in the St Lawrence river the name of Montreal