Hispanic influences in the New World

By kcon
  • Oct 13, 1498

    Christopjer Colombus sees fist South American land

  • Oct 13, 1513

    Ponce De Leon Discovers Florida and claims it for Spain

  • Oct 14, 1565

    Spain sets up first settlement in Florida.

    This was St. Augustine.

  • the treaty of ryswick was signed

  • Seminoles enter Florida from Alabama and Georgia and take over

  • Spain cedes Florida to U.S.A. for Texas

  • Venezuela gains freedom

  • Peru becomes fully independent

    They gain independence from Spain that had been ruling them since Pizzaro conquered the Incas.

  • Florida becomes a state

  • California became an independent state

  • Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico

  • Regular air service was made between Cuba and Miami

    Became the main link from Florida to Cuba

  • citizens of Cuba flee Castro

    Lots of people from Cuba fled to Florida on a raft, and it does not seem that far away on the map, but it is actually probably hundreds of miles away from the shore of Florida.

  • Miami elects first cuban-american major.

    The major was Xavier L. Suarez.