The Aztecs sacrifice 20,000 people to inaugurate their new temple in Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1487
The Aztecs sacrifice 20,000 people to inaugurate their new temple in Tenochtitlan
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Feb 11, 1492
Cristoforo Colombo (Columbus) lands in the island of Hispaniola
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Feb 11, 1494
Pope Alexander VI brokers an agreement dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal ("Treaty of Tordesillas")
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Feb 11, 1494
Colombo captures 1,500 slaves on Hispaniola
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Feb 11, 1496
The Spanish found Santo Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, the first Spanish town in the Americas
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Feb 11, 1498
Colombo explores the coast of Venezuela
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Feb 11, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci travels to South America
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Feb 11, 1500
Portuguese explorer Alvares Cabral lands on the coast of Brazil
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Feb 11, 1501
The Spanish colonists of Hispaniola begin importing African slaves
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Feb 11, 1503
Jews escape the Portuguese Inquisition by emigrating to Brazil
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The seat of the viceroy of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio
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Gaspar de Portola is appointed governor of Las Californias
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Santander returns from exile to rule Colombia/ Nueva Grenada
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Jose Eloy Alfaro, representing the anti-clerical liberals from Guayaquil, becomes president of Ecuador
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Civil war erupts in Colombia between liberals and conservatives ("Guerra de los Mil Dias")
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Colombian troops abolish the "Marquetalia Republic"
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The USA dispatches the marines to restore order in the Dominican Republic after the communists try a coup
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A fire in Honduras kills 102 convicts
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A fire in a jail in the Chilean capital Santiago kills at least 83 inmates
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A Spanish judge accuses Venezuela of having supported a deal between Colombia's terrorists FARC and Spain's terrorists ETA to assassinate Colombia's president
