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Sep 18, 1295
Marco Polo returns to Europe.
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Sep 18, 1400
Spain becomes united, in the late 1400
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Sep 18, 1488
Dias rounds Southern tip of Africa
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Sep 18, 1492
Columbus land in the Bahamas
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Sep 18, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
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Sep 18, 1498
Da Gama reaches India Cabot explores northeastern coast of America for England
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Sep 18, 1513
Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean
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Period: Sep 18, 1513 to Sep 18, 1521
Ponce de León explores Florida
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Sep 18, 1519
Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain
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Period: Sep 18, 1519 to Sep 18, 1521
Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain
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Sep 18, 1521
Cortés conquers of Mexico ends
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Sep 18, 1522
Magellan's vessel completers circumnavigation of the world
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Sep 18, 1524
Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France
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Sep 18, 1532
Pizarro crushes Incas
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Sep 18, 1539
De Soto explores the Sutheast and discovers the Mississippi River
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Period: Sep 18, 1539 to Sep 18, 1542
DE Soto explores present-day Southwest
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Period: Sep 18, 1540 to Sep 18, 1542
Coronado explores present-day Southwest
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Sep 18, 1542
Cabrllo explores California coast for Spain
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Sep 19, 1558
Elizabeth I became queen of England
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Sep 18, 1565
Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine
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Period: Sep 19, 1565 to
English crush Irish uprising
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Sep 19, 1577
Drake circumnavigates the globe
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Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island
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Enngland defeats Spanish Armada
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Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois lengend
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Spanish under Oñate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley
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James I became king of England
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Spain and England sign peace treaty
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Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
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Spanish found New Mexico
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Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
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First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
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First Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia House of Burgesses established
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Virginia becaoes royal colony
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Maryland colony founded
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Large-scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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Act of Toleration in Maryland Charles I beheaded; Vromwell rules England
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Charles II restored to English throne
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Barbados slave code adopted
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Carolina colony created
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Popé's Rebellion in New Mexico
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French expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle
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Tuscarora War in North Carolina
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North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
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Yamasee War in South Carolina
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Georgia colony founded
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Serra founds first California mission, at San Diego