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Sep 25, 1540
Cities of Gold
Spanish Explorer Fransico Vásquez de Coronado, along with 300 soldiers, set out to find Cibola, one of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. -
Roanoke Island
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Spanish Armada defeated
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Jamestown
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Colonist can own land
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House of Burgesses Meets
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Dutch bring Africans
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Virginia Company sends woman
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King James declares Royal Colony
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Popé
the Spanish governor of New Mexico ordered more than 40 Pueblo shamans publicly whipped for following traditional religious practices.