Latin America

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  • Apr 17, 1450

    Machu Picchu

    Machu Picchu
    Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire.It was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. It is likely that most of its inhabitants were wiped out by smallpox before the Spanish constructors in the area,
  • May 17, 1450

    Tikal

    Tikal
    Tikal according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the biggest site.
    Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful.
  • May 20, 1451

    columbus

    columbus
    C\ and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continent. And to find what every one thought was a new world.
  • Jun 26, 1471

    Francisco pizarro

    Francisco pizarro
    F was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru.
  • Nov 18, 1484

    Batolome de Las Cases

    Batolome de Las Cases
    16th-century Spanish Dominican priest,
  • Dec 2, 1485

    Cortes

    Cortes
    was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico.
  • May 17, 1492

    Colombian Exchange

    Colombian Exchange
    The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animal, plants, culture .diseies.
  • Jun 30, 1520

    La Noche Triste

    La Noche Triste
    episode during the Spanish conquest of Mexico where Hernán Cortés' conquest of the Aztec Empire was nearly stoped Mexico and Corte barely escaped by the night.
  • Toussaint Louverture

    Toussaint Louverture
    Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, Toussaint led enslaved blacks in a long struggle for independence
  • Simon Bolivar

    Simon Bolivar
    was a Venezuelan political leader. he played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.