America

The New World

By miked6688
  • 140

    into modern day USA

    into modern day USA
    around 11,400 BCE Paleo-Indians reach the great plains.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    First European in America

    First European in America
    Norse explored Leif Ericson is first European to arrive in America. Ariived in modern day Newfoundland and established the Norse settlement of Vinland.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus

    Columbus
    Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus with three ships the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria land in what is the mdoern day bahamas and is long thought of as the first discoverer of America.
  • Jan 1, 1497

    Cabot

    Cabot
    Italian explorer John Cabot becomes first European to arrive in North America since Erikson did nearly 500 years before.
  • May 8, 1541

    The Mississippi

    The Mississippi
    In the Spring of 1541 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto and his men are the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi river.

  • The lost colony

    The lost colony
    Queen Elizabeth I grants Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to set up a colony in The New World. Raleigh sets up colony in present day North Carolina. The first english child born in the new world is here in 1587, she is named Virginia Dare. Dare and the 115 colonist vanished. What happened to the people of the colony of Roanoke is still a mystery today.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    The first permanent english settlement is founded in Virginia.

  • The Mayflower

    The Mayflower
    The Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Unlike the colonies further south the Pilgrims had came to the new world to escape religious persecution. commonly associated with Thanksgiving.

  • first people

    first people
    around 1200 B.C
    Paleo-Indians cross into North America because of ice free corridor that connected Eastern Asia with Alaska.