American History

Timeline created by deathjelly

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
08/28/1200	Cahokia reaches peak	40,000 people, earth mound complexes
08/28/1300	Black Death devastates Europe
08/28/1485	England pop. of 3 mil
08/28/1492	Columbus' First Voyage	Discovers Hispaniola & Cuba
08/28/1497	John Cabot sails to NE coast of North America
08/28/1498	Columbus' Third Voyage	Reached the northern coast of South America
08/28/1500	Brazil Discovered	by the Portuguese
08/28/1502	Slave importation to Americas begins
08/28/1513	Vasco de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama
08/28/1517	Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
08/28/1518	Hernando Cortes messes with Mexico	Leads 600 men into the interior, attacks Tenochtitlan, gives Aztecs smallpox, believes it a gift from god
08/28/1520	Pope excommunicates Martin Luther
08/28/1529	King Henry VIII is refused a divorce by the Pope; English Reformation begins
08/28/1532	Francisco Pizarro begins conquest of Peru
08/28/1538	Peru is conquered
08/28/1539	Hernando de Soto begins expeditions starting in Florida
08/28/1540	Francisco Coronado explores New Mexico
08/28/1550	Spanish have explored coasts North to Labrador & Oregon
08/28/1555	Muscovy Company formed
08/28/1558	Bloody Mary dies, Elizabeth I becomes queen
08/28/1565	St Augustine 1st permanent American settlement
08/28/1570	New laws banned the most brutal conquests	by conquistadores- The Ordinances of Discovery
08/28/1578	Sir Humphrey Gilbert receives 6 year land patent
08/28/1581	Levant Company formed
08/28/1583	Sir Humphrey Gilbert takes possession of Newfoundland, is lost at sea
08/28/1585	Barbary Company formed
08/28/1588	Guinea Company formed
08/28/1598	Don Juan de Onate founded a colony in New Mexico
08/28/1600	East India Company formed
08/28/1603	England pop. reaches 4 mil
08/28/1603	James I, Scotsman, Stuart, ascends English throne
08/28/1606	Onate removed as governor
08/28/1607	Jamestown founded by English
08/28/1608	Quebec founded by France
08/28/1609	Santa Fe founded
08/28/1609	Samuel de Champlain attacks Mohawks
08/28/1609	Henry Hudson sails up Hudson River
08/28/1624	Dutch West India Co. founds permanent trading posts on Delaware, Connecticut, & Hudson rivers
08/28/1680	Pueblos revolted in Onate colony
08/28/1696	Spanish crush Onate rebellion