Chapter 2 APUSH timeline

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  • 1000

    Norse settlement at L'Anse aux meadows

  • Period: 1347 to 1353

    Black Death in Europe

  • 1381

    English Peasant Revolts

  • 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias sails around the African continents

  • 1492

    Chrisopher Colombus first arrives in the Caribbean

  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • 1497

    John Cabot explores Newfoundland

  • 1500

    High point of the Renaissance

  • 1508

    Spanish invade Puerto Rico

  • 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida

  • 1514

    Bartolome de las casas begins preaching against the conquest

  • 1516

    Smallpox introduced to the New World

  • 1517

    Martin Luther breaks with the Roman Catholic Church

  • 1519

    Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico

  • 1534

    Jacques Cartier explores the ST. Lawrence River

  • Period: 1539 to 1540

    hernando de soto and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado expeditions

  • 1550

    Tobacco introduced to Europe

  • 1552

    Bartolome de las Casas "Destruction of the Indies" published

  • 1558

    Elizabeth 1 of England begins her reign

  • 1562

    Huguenot colony planted along the mid-atlantic coast

  • 1565

    St.Augustine founded

  • Humphrey Gilbert attempts to plant a colony in Newfoundland

  • Period: to

    Walter Raleighs colony on Roanoke Island

  • Englsih defeat the Spanish Armada

  • John White returns to find Roanoke colony abandoned