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The Aztecs sacrifice 20,000 people to inaugurate their new temple in Tenochtitlan
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Christopher Columbus Lands on the Island of Hispaniola
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Popa Alexander VI brokers an agreement dividing the Americas between Spain and Prtugal
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Spain establishes the Casa de Contratracion to guaruantee a Spanish monopoly of trade with Americas
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Cortez and his army defeats the Aztecs and conquers/takes Tenochtitlan
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Spanish king appoints Cortez governor of Mexico
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Spain institutes an "audience" (supreme court) in Mexico city
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British pirate Sir Francis Drake concludes the second circumnavigation of Earth
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France conquers Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Dominique
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Portugal regains it's independence and brazil returns Portuguese
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Cuba opens the first public library of Spanish America
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Argentina is devestaded by civil war, and Juan Manuel de Rosas leads a regiment of gauchos (the "colorados")
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Dom Joao returns to Portugal and leaves his son Pedro as governor of Brazil
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Ecuador achieves independance from Spain
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And Brazil's emporor Pedro is forced by nthe Brazilians to renounce the throne of Portugal
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Peru invades Bolivia and Columbia declares war on Peru
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Mexico's dictator Santa Anna abrogates the liberal constitution, and the liberal leader Lorenzo de Zavala exiles himself to Mexico promoting the cause of Texan independence
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texas gains independence!!!
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Mexico enacts a new Constitution
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Texas is annexed by the USA
