American History

By deathjelly
  • Aug 28, 1200

    Cahokia reaches peak

    40,000 people, earth mound complexes
  • Aug 28, 1300

    Black Death devastates Europe

  • Aug 28, 1485

    England pop. of 3 mil

  • Aug 28, 1492

    Columbus' First Voyage

    Discovers Hispaniola & Cuba
  • Aug 28, 1497

    John Cabot sails to NE coast of North America

  • Aug 28, 1498

    Columbus' Third Voyage

    Reached the northern coast of South America
  • Aug 28, 1500

    Brazil Discovered

    by the Portuguese
  • Aug 28, 1502

    Slave importation to Americas begins

  • Aug 28, 1513

    Vasco de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama

  • Aug 28, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • Aug 28, 1518

    Hernando Cortes messes with Mexico

    Leads 600 men into the interior, attacks Tenochtitlan, gives Aztecs smallpox, believes it a gift from god
  • Aug 28, 1520

    Pope excommunicates Martin Luther

  • Aug 28, 1529

    King Henry VIII is refused a divorce by the Pope; English Reformation begins

  • Aug 28, 1532

    Francisco Pizarro begins conquest of Peru

  • Aug 28, 1538

    Peru is conquered

  • Aug 28, 1539

    Hernando de Soto begins expeditions starting in Florida

  • Aug 28, 1540

    Francisco Coronado explores New Mexico

  • Aug 28, 1550

    Spanish have explored coasts North to Labrador & Oregon

  • Aug 28, 1555

    Muscovy Company formed

  • Aug 28, 1558

    Bloody Mary dies, Elizabeth I becomes queen

  • Aug 28, 1565

    St Augustine 1st permanent American settlement

  • Aug 28, 1570

    New laws banned the most brutal conquests

    by conquistadores- The Ordinances of Discovery
  • Aug 28, 1578

    Sir Humphrey Gilbert receives 6 year land patent

  • Aug 28, 1581

    Levant Company formed

  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert takes possession of Newfoundland, is lost at sea

  • Barbary Company formed

  • Guinea Company formed

  • Don Juan de Onate founded a colony in New Mexico

  • East India Company formed

  • James I, Scotsman, Stuart, ascends English throne

  • England pop. reaches 4 mil

  • Onate removed as governor

  • Jamestown founded by English

  • Quebec founded by France

  • Santa Fe founded

  • Samuel de Champlain attacks Mohawks

  • Henry Hudson sails up Hudson River

  • Dutch West India Co. founds permanent trading posts on Delaware, Connecticut, & Hudson rivers

  • Pueblos revolted in Onate colony

  • Spanish crush Onate rebellion

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