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Aug 28, 1200
Cahokia reaches peak
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Aug 28, 1300
Black Death devastates Europe
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Aug 28, 1485
England pop. of 3 mil
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Aug 28, 1492
Columbus' First Voyage
Discovers Hispaniola & Cuba -
Aug 28, 1497
John Cabot sails to NE coast of North America
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Aug 28, 1498
Columbus' Third Voyage
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Aug 28, 1500
Brazil Discovered
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Aug 28, 1502
Slave importation to Americas begins
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Aug 28, 1513
Vasco de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama
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Aug 28, 1517
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
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Aug 28, 1518
Hernando Cortes messes with Mexico
Leads 600 men into the interior, attacks Tenochtitlan, gives Aztecs smallpox, believes it a gift from god -
Aug 28, 1520
Pope excommunicates Martin Luther
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Aug 28, 1529
King Henry VIII is refused a divorce by the Pope; English Reformation begins
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Aug 28, 1532
Francisco Pizarro begins conquest of Peru
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Aug 28, 1538
Peru is conquered
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Aug 28, 1539
Hernando de Soto begins expeditions starting in Florida
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Aug 28, 1540
Francisco Coronado explores New Mexico
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Aug 28, 1550
Spanish have explored coasts North to Labrador & Oregon
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Aug 28, 1555
Muscovy Company formed
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Aug 28, 1558
Bloody Mary dies, Elizabeth I becomes queen
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Aug 28, 1565
St Augustine 1st permanent American settlement
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Aug 28, 1570
New laws banned the most brutal conquests
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Aug 28, 1578
Sir Humphrey Gilbert receives 6 year land patent
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Aug 28, 1581
Levant Company formed
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert takes possession of Newfoundland, is lost at sea
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Barbary Company formed
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Guinea Company formed
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Don Juan de Onate founded a colony in New Mexico
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East India Company formed
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James I, Scotsman, Stuart, ascends English throne
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England pop. reaches 4 mil
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Onate removed as governor
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Jamestown founded by English
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Quebec founded by France
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Santa Fe founded
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Samuel de Champlain attacks Mohawks
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Henry Hudson sails up Hudson River
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Dutch West India Co. founds permanent trading posts on Delaware, Connecticut, & Hudson rivers
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Pueblos revolted in Onate colony
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Spanish crush Onate rebellion