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5000 BCE
5000 BCE
Agricultural Revolution begins in Mexico. -
Sep 29, 1050
1050-1250 CE
The city of Cahokia flourishes in North America -
Sep 29, 1325
1325
Aztec empire founded in Central Mexico -
Sep 29, 1492
1492
Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas -
Sep 29, 1503
1503
Spaniards bring first enslaved Africans to the Americas -
Sep 29, 1513
1513
Ponce de Leon lands in Florida -
Sep 29, 1517
1517
Martin Luther launches Protestant Reformation -
Sep 29, 1519
1519
Cortez begins the Spanish conquest to Mexico -
Sep 29, 1531
1531
Pizzaro subdues the Quechua Empire in south America for Spain -
Sep 29, 1541
1541
Spanish Fort at St. Augustine (first permanent settlement in present day US) -
1584-1587
Raleigh's Roanoke Island venture -
1588
English Navy defeats the Spanish armada -
1590's
Iroquois Confederation is founded -
1606
The London Company sponsors a colonizing expedition to Virginia -
1616
Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia. -
1619
Dutch bring a ship of 20 African slaves to Virginia, marking the beginning of slavery. -
1620
Mayflower lands in Cape Cod with 101 colonists -
1633
First town government established in Dorchester, Massachuestets -
1638
Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts for committing acts against the Puritan beliefs -
1652
Rhode Island enacts the first law making slavery illegal -
1680
Pueblo Revolt- Rising of Indigenous peoples against the Spanish coloniosts -
1688
Quakers in Pennsylvania make a formal protest against slavery. -
1751
Currency Act banning paper money in Americas