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Sep 26, 1492
Christopher Colombus
He was the "First" person to discover the Americas. He really wasn't a good man, even though some believe he was. -
Sep 26, 1497
John Cabot
He was the first English explorer to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Sep 26, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Was claimed to have lead the first group of Spanish that saw the Pacific ocean from the Americas. -
Sep 26, 1521
Cortes
Cortes conquered the Aztecs by taking their land for Spain. -
Sep 26, 1576
Sir Martin Frobisher
He sailed three times looking for the impossible Northwest Passage. -
Jamestown
Showed failure of colonies location when the citizens of James town turned to cannibalism. -
William Penn
Founded Pennsylvania for Quakers but it eventually became a religious tolerance colony. -
King Charles II
He granted most of the colonies permission to settle in the americas and start their colonies there. -
Pueblo Revolt
Proved that missionaries weren't always working in the Americas. The pueblo were getting diseases from the whites, thinking that it was caused from not practicing their original religion. This made them turn back to it. Then Christians punished them causing the Pueblo to fight back and eventually kill/scare all the Christians away. -
Witch Hunt
People started to get sick and being accused of being witches and eventually 20 people were killed.
