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Beginnings of slave trade to New World
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After the New World was discovered, Spain soon realized that it was an incredibly valuable resource that should be pacified and colonized. Only two things stood in their way: the mighty Empires of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in Peru, who would have to be defeated in order to establish rule over the newly-discovered lands.
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Him & his men marched into the interior of the country until they reached the Aztec city of Tenochitlan
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Cortes and his soldiers had conquered the Aztecs
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Spanish Colombian conquest begins
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Buenos Aires was established
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Santiago , Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
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independence from Spain came suddenly for most of Latin America. Between 1810 and 1825, most of Spain's former colonies had declared and won independence and had divided up into republics.
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Chile begins four years of untroubled independence, ruled by a junta introducing liberal reforms
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Venezuela declared its independence from spain
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The provinces of Argentines officially declared their independence from Spain
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El Salvadore gains Independence from Spain
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Vicente Guerrero and Guadalupe Victoria, both of whom commanded large armies in the south and south-central parts of Mexico. The Spanish sent out a young officer, Agustín de Iturbide, at the head of a large army to quash the rebellion once and for all in 1820.
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Brazil, Argentina renounce claims to territories which become the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.
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Ecuador became an independent country
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British sailors invade San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.
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Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company
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Oil was discovered in the foothills of the Andes at the western Bolivian region of the Chaco
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Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru
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Benito Juarez, president of a bankrupt Mexico, suspends interest payment on the nation's foreign debt
