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Conflict Americas

Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars)

1609 CE – 1701 CE · 92 years

Haudenosaunee, other Indigenous nations, and European allies fought over trade and power; the Great Peace of Montreal followed in 1701.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)
  • Huron-Wendat, Erie, Susquehannock, Algonquin, French

Key moments

Defining events in the Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars).

  1. 1649 Destruction of Huronia
  2. 1656 Destruction of Erie nation
  3. 1701 Great Peace of Montreal

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Santa Fe

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Polity · Americas

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Anglo-Powhatan Wars

1610 CE – 1646 CE

Trade route · Americas

Atlantic Return (Sugar & Tobacco)

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1609 CE and 1701 CE.

1609 CE Iroquois Beaver Wars 1610 CE Anglo-Powhatan Wars 1626 CE New York 1632 CE San Ignacio Miní 1632 CE São Miguel das Missões

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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