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Feb 9, 1509
Panama
Beginnings of slave trade to New World -
Jan 8, 1519
The Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires
After the New World was discovered, Spain soon realized that it was an incredibly valuable resource that should be pacified and colonized. Only two things stood in their way: the mighty Empires of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in Peru, who would have to be defeated in order to establish rule over the newly-discovered lands. -
Jan 8, 1519
Hernando Cortescortes
Him & his men marched into the interior of the country until they reached the Aztec city of Tenochitlan -
Jan 19, 1521
Cortes
Cortes and his soldiers had conquered the Aztecs -
Dec 15, 1535
Colombia
Spanish Colombian conquest begins -
Jun 16, 1580
Argentina
Buenos Aires was established -
Chile
Santiago , Chile is destroyed by an earthquake -
Indepandece From Spain
independence from Spain came suddenly for most of Latin America. Between 1810 and 1825, most of Spain's former colonies had declared and won independence and had divided up into republics. -
Chile
Chile begins four years of untroubled independence, ruled by a junta introducing liberal reforms -
Venezuela
Venezuela declared its independence from spain -
Argentina Independence
The provinces of Argentines officially declared their independence from Spain -
El Salvador
El Salvadore gains Independence from Spain -
Mexico's independence
Vicente Guerrero and Guadalupe Victoria, both of whom commanded large armies in the south and south-central parts of Mexico. The Spanish sent out a young officer, Agustín de Iturbide, at the head of a large army to quash the rebellion once and for all in 1820. -
Uruguay
Brazil, Argentina renounce claims to territories which become the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. -
Ecuador
Ecuador became an independent country -
Nicaragua
British sailors invade San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. -
costa rica
Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company -
Bolivia
Oil was discovered in the foothills of the Andes at the western Bolivian region of the Chaco -
Peru
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru -
mexico bankrupt
Benito Juarez, president of a bankrupt Mexico, suspends interest payment on the nation's foreign debt
