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Jun 15, 1492
Columbian Exchange
interchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the Americas following Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean in 1492. -
Oct 8, 1496
Native American Genocide
When Christopher Columbus "discovered" America, he had a massacre killing the Native Americans living there and taking over their land. -
May 20, 1506
Columbus returns to Spain
Columbus made it all the way to Panama–just miles from the Pacific Ocean–where he had to abandon two of his four ships in the face of an attack from hostile natives. Empty-handed, the elderly explorer returned to Spain, where he died in 1506. -
Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV of Spain was King of Spain and Portugal as Philip III. He ascended the thrones in 1621 and reigned in Spain -
Franco-Spanish War
a military conflict that was the result of French involvement in the Thirty Years' War. -
Louis XVI of France Execution
One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. -
Jacobins
The most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror
