Mayflower

The Americas to 1620

  • 500

    Flourishing of Hopewell culture

  • Jan 1, 600

    Hohokam civilization developed

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Vikings in North America

  • Jan 1, 1100

    Flourishing of Anasazi culture

  • Jan 1, 1200

    Aztecs in Valley of Mexico

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Little Ice Age

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus’s Barcelona Letter published

  • Jan 1, 1493

    Inter Caetera

  • Jan 1, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • Jan 1, 1497

    Explorations by John Cabot

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Brazil Discovered

  • Jan 1, 1502

    Columbus’s final Atlantic trip

  • Jan 1, 1512

    Encomienda system established

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Balboa reached the Pacific

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Ponce de Leon in Florida

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Magellan’s Circumnavigation

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Cortes invaded Mexico

  • Jan 1, 1523

    Exploratins by Giovanni da Verrazzano

  • Jan 1, 1532

    Pizarro conquered Inca Empire

  • Jan 1, 1537

    Sublimus Deus

  • Jan 1, 1539

    De Soto explored the Southwest

  • Jan 1, 1540

    Coronado explored the Southwest

  • Jan 1, 1541

    French settlement in Canada

  • Jan 1, 1542

    Leyes Nuevas implemented

  • Jan 1, 1550

    Formation of the Powhatan Confederacy

  • Jan 1, 1551

    Council of Valladolid ruling

  • Jan 1, 1552

    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

  • Jan 1, 1562

    Slave-trading voyages of Sir John Hawkins

  • Jan 1, 1565

    Founding of St. Augustine

  • Jan 1, 1570

    Iroquois Confederacy established

  • Jan 1, 1576

    Frobisher sought Northwest Passage

  • Jan 1, 1579

    Drake on the West Coast

  • Raleigh received charter

  • British colony established

  • John White in Roanoke

  • A Briefe and True report of the new found of Virginia

  • Roanoke found deserted

  • Acoma pueblo destroyed

  • Establishment of Acadia

  • Dutch established slave trade

  • Patents for colonization in North America

  • Jamestown established

  • French-Huron alliance

  • Quebec City founded

  • Sante Fe founded

  • Exploration of Hudson River

  • Dutch claimed New Netherland

  • Epidemic among American Indians in New England

  • Africans sold Virginia

  • Mayflower Compact and Plymouth landing

  • Rise of Mississippian culture