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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Exploration
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Jan 20, 1500
French fishing ships were crossing the Atlantic to harvest the best Cod, by Newfoundland, Canada.
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Jan 20, 1519
Hernan Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico.
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Jan 23, 1519
Small pox spread amoung the Aztecs and shrank the population.
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Jan 20, 1521
Cortes and his Indian allies captured and demolished Tenochtitlan in a brutal battle.
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Jan 20, 1530
Spain started bringing Africans to the Americas as slave laborers.
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Jan 20, 1532
Francisco Pizarro arrived in Peru.
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Jan 20, 1540
A huge amount of silver iss found in Peru.
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Jan 20, 1542
Spain passed the New Laws of the Indies.
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Jan 20, 1550
Spain has claimed a vast empire stretching all the way from California to South America.
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Jan 20, 1550
Mexico was the largest Spanish-speaking city in the worl.
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Jan 20, 1551
University of Mexico was established.
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English built their first colony in North America, Jamestown, Virginia.
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Harvard was founded, it was the first college in the 13 English colonies.
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France and England controlled large parts of North America.
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French forts, missions, and trading posts stretched all the way from Louisiana to Quebec.