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Unit 2 Timeline

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  • Sep 29, 1000

    Corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard.

  • Sep 29, 1000

    Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in northeastern North America.

  • Sep 29, 1100

    Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East (Ends in 1300).

  • Sep 29, 1295

    Marco Polo returns to Europe.

  • Sep 29, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Bahamas.

  • Sep 29, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal occurs.

  • Sep 29, 1498

    Da Gama reaches India.

  • Sep 29, 1498

    Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America for England

  • Sep 29, 1513

    Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain.

  • Sep 29, 1513

    Ponce de León explores Florida.

  • Sep 29, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation

  • Sep 29, 1519

    Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain.

  • Sep 29, 1522

    Megellan’s vessel completes circumnavigation of the world.

  • Sep 29, 1524

    Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France.

  • Sep 29, 1532

    Pizarro crushes Incas.

  • Sep 29, 1534

    Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence River.

  • Sep 29, 1536

    John Calvin of Geneva publishes “Institutes of the Christian Religion.”

  • Sep 29, 1539

    De Soto explores the Southeast and discovers the Mississippi river.

  • Sep 29, 1540

    Coronado explores present-day Southeast.

  • Sep 29, 1542

    Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain.

  • Sep 29, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes queen of England.

  • Sep 29, 1565

    Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine.

  • Sep 29, 1577

    Drake circumnavigates the globe.

  • Raleigh founds “lost colony” at Roanoke.

  • England defeats Spanish armada.

  • James I becomes king of England.

  • Spain and England sign a peace treaty.

  • Virginia colony founded in Jamestown.

  • Spanish under Oñate conquers Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande Valley.

  • Spanish founds New Mexico.

  • Rolfe perfects tobacco-culture in Virginia

  • First Anglo-Powhatan War ends.

  • First Africans arrive in Jamestown.

  • Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay.

  • Dutch found New England.

  • Virginia becomes a "oyal" colony.

  • Chalres I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans.

  • Puritans founds Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • Maryland colony founded.

  • Roger William convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island Colony.

  • Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded.

  • Harvard College founded.

  • Prequot War.

  • Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony.

  • Conneticutt’s Fundamental Orders drafted.

  • Large-scale slave labor system established in English West Indies (1640s).

  • English civil war (ends 1648).

  • New England confederation formed.

  • Charles I beheaded; Cromwell rules England.

  • New Netherland conquers New Sweden.

  • Charles II restored to English throne.

  • Barbados slave code adopted.

  • England seizes New Netherland from Dutch.

  • East and West Jersey Colonies founded.

  • Carolina colony established.

  • Virginia assembly disfranchises landless freeman.

  • Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia.

  • France’s expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle (1680s).

  • Pope’s Rebellion in New Mexico.

  • William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony.

  • Royal authority creates Dominion of New England.

  • Salem Witch hunts in Massachusetts.

  • College of William and Mary founded.

  • Royal Company slave-trade monopoly ended.

  • Tuscarora War in North Carolina (ends 1713).

  • North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina.

  • New York City slave revolt.

  • Georgia colony founded.

  • South Carolina slave revolt.

  • Serra founds first California mission at San Diego.