Timeline of the 15th and 16th century

  • 1400

    Renaissance culture starts to develop in Europe. Specifically in Italy.

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus found America.

  • 1497

    John Cabot found Newfoundland, therefore, discovering Canada.

  • 1515

    Fur trade between Europeans and the Native Americans becomes a large and important business.

  • 1534

    Jacques Cartier explored PEI and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

  • 1540

    Francisca Vasque de Coranda searches for wealth/treasure in the Seven Cities of Cibola but finds nothing, and due to being frustrated gets into a brutal conflict with the Indian Groups.

  • 1543

    The Scientific Revolution was starting to take place in Europe.

  • Europeans start to search for precious metals in America.

  • Europeans established a slave trade from Africa to America to obtain workers for plantations they were creating in America.

  • Congress decides to vote independence against Great Britain. America was founded

  • The US constitution is signed and power is given to the government led by the people

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    The Underground Railroad helped to guide a hundred thousand enslaved people to freedom

  • The war of 1812 was a war with the United States of America and its Indigenous allies against Great Britain because of British violations of U.S. maritime rights.

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    A war that happened because of the different opinions on slavery by the northern and southern states in the United States of America

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    The Pacific Railroad was being built while causing harm to the land that belonged to the Indigenous Peoples also during the construction, multiple Chinese workers died to tunnels collapsing