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Period: 1450 to
Events that follow Columbus' Exploration
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Oct 20, 1492
1492
Columbus was going to Cuba to trade, but ended up in the Bahamas. He had 3 ships, but the Santa Maria was his flagship. -
1512
1512
Hispaniola wanted slaves so they didn't have to do the work. -
1519
1519
Cortez sails to the capital of the Aztec empire. -
Aug 13, 1521
1521
Hernan Cortez received the surrender from the Aztec people. -
1527
1527
Bartrlome De Las Casas did not like Indian slavery and wanted it became the "Protector of the Indians". -
1535
1535
Pizarro founds and calls Lima, Peru the City of the Kings, after he defeated the Incas. -
1590
John White gets home to Roanoke Island and finds everyone gone. It is still a mystery today, how everyone in the colony disappeared. -
1607
The English started a new settlement called Jamestown, on the banks of the James River. It was started by 100 members of the Virginia Company. -
1608
Champlain was sent by Dugua to start a new french colony. He was successful, it was called Quebec. -
1619
Governor George Yardley made a legislative group from the 13 colonies. It met for the first time in 1619 at a church in Jamestown to set the price for selling tobacco. -
1620
The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth for religious freedom. -
1634
Mathias de Sousa was an indentured servant and worked for Father Andrew White from 1634-1638, when he became a free man. He traded furs and other goods. -
1682
William Penn established Pennsylvania for religious freedom in America. -
1733
James Oglethorpe was the one who planned and founded Georgia. He had 114 colonists follow him up the bluff from Savannah.
