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| 1699–1702 |
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| To check the Spanish advance, control the Gulf coast, and forestall possible English occupation of the lower Mississippi, French forces under Pierre D'Iberville established posts at Biloxi and started the French colony in Louisiana (1699). The post was moved to Mobile Bay in 1702 and named St. Louis. Mobile was founded in 1710 and New Orleans in 1718. | 1 |
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| 1699 |
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| A Sulpician mission was set up at Cahokia in the Illinois country. In 1700 Jesuits moved down the Illinois River to Kaskaskia. | 2 |
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| 1701 |
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| Detroit founded by Antoine de Cadillac, to control the entrance from Lake Erie to Lake Huron and to control the trade from Illinois to the coast. Crozat surrendered his patent (1717) and Louisiana was in the same year taken over by the Compagnie d'Occident, which became the Compagnie des Indes Orientales (1719). (See Wars of England with France and Spain, 1651–1763) | 3 |
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