Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.

Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.

Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.

In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city.

Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.