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Sep 25, 1450
Europeans enter to Africa
Portuguese marines develop the caudal, which helps tham sail more closely into the winds. -
Sep 25, 1493
When Worlds Collide
Columbus returnes to Hispaniola, with 17 ships that had cattle swine, and horses. -
Sep 25, 1517
Settling the Northern Colonies
Martin Luther nailed his protests against the Catholic Church to the door of Wittenberg’s Cathedral. -
Jun 30, 1520
The Spanish Conquistadores
the Aztecs attacke the Spaniards driving them out of technochtitlan. -
Sep 25, 1530
England’s Imperial Stirrings
King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s launching the English Protestant Reformation. -
Sep 25, 1550
Europeans enter to Africa
Slaves trade became big, 40 thousands Africans were carried away to the Atlantic sugar island in the last half of the 15th century. -
Sep 25, 1558
England’s Imperial Stirrings
Protestantism becomes dominant in England in the 1558, causing the rivalry with Spain to intensify. -
Sep 25, 1570
England’s Imperial Stirrings
1570’s and 1580’s crushes the Irish uprising -
Elizabeth Energizes England
Sir Humphrey Gilbert loses his life in 1583, Gilberts brother Sir Walter Raleigh try's to complete his dream. -
Elizabeth Energizes England
1585 Raleigh lands on North Carolina Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia. -
Elizabeth Energizes England
Philip II Spain forms the “Invincible Armada” for the invasion of England. -
Elizabeth Energizes England
1604 England and Spain sign a peace treaty. -
The Tobacco Economy
1.5 million pounds of tobacco are shipped annually and almost 40 million a year by the end of the century. -
Life in New England Towns
Massachusetts puritans establish Harvard College to train local boys for the ministry. -
The unhealthy chesapeake
men outnumbered woman about six to one and three to two at the end of the century. -
The Halfway Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials
troubled ministers announce a new formula for church membership the half way covenant -
Frustrated Freedom and Bacon’s Rebellion
Virginia assembly disfranchised most of the landless knockabouts, accusing them of “having little interest in the country”. -
Frustrated Freedom and Bacon’s Rebellion
about a thousand Virginians brake out of control led by their leader Nathaniel Bacon. -
Colonial Slavery
rising wages in England minimized the pool of penniless folk willing to buy any more slaves -
Colonial Slavery
black slaves outnumber white servants for the first time -
Life in New England Towns
Virginians establish their first college William and Mary -
Colonial slavery
The Royal African company loses their monopoly over the sending slaves to the colonies. -
Africans in the America
a slave revolt erupts in New York City. -
Africans in the America
the black female population in Chesapeake begins to rise, making family life possible. -
Africans in the America
another slave revolts erupts in South Carolina