This is a chronology and timeline of the European colonization of the Americas, with founding dates of selected European settlements.[1][2][3]
- ^ Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America (1971).
- ^ William Langer, ed.. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973)
- ^ Melvin E. Page, ed. Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (3 vol. 2003); vol. 2 pages 648–831 has a detailed chronology