Renaissance · North America · Exploration

1634

Jean Nicolet Reaches Lake Michigan

1634

The French explorer Jean Nicolet, sent west by Champlain to find a route to Cathay, paddled through the Straits of Mackinac in a birchbark canoe. Expecting to meet Chinese, he came ashore on Green Bay in a Chinese silk damask robe and surprised some Ho-Chunk hunters, who greeted him politely.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1633: Maryland Charter Granted
After: September 1636: Harvard College Founded

Before and after in Exploration

Before: 1632: Russians Found Yakutsk
After: 1639: Russians Reach the Pacific

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.