Timeline of Quebec history (beginnings–1533)

This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns events through 1533.

Prehistory

• ~10,000 BCE: Indigenous peoples begin settling in what is now Québec following glacial retreat, initially as nomadic hunter-gatherers.
• ~8,000 BCE: Early evidence of Paleo-Indians in southern Québec; these are the ancestors of later Eastern Woodlands peoples.
• Blackfoot Confederacy emerges; a political structure organized around bands governed by consensus.