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A sailor on board of the Pinta sights America from on board. The next day his crew went on shore on the present day Bahamian island.
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After Columbus's arrival, the Catholic Monarchs got a papal bull from Pope Alexander VI saying that all lands west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain.
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The treaty of Tordesillas divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islandes.
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Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama was the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrived at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa in 1498.
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Near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon came ashore on the Florida coast, and claimed the territory for the Spanish crown.
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Hernán Cortés captures Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire. Cortés' men destoryed the city and captured Cuauhtemoc, the Aztec emperor.
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On the banks of the Mississippi River in present-day Louisiana, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto died ending a three-year journey for gold that took him halfway across the United States. After his death his men buried his body in the Mississippi River.
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Coronado led a Spanish expedition up Mexico's western coast and into the region that is now the southwestern United States. The explorers discovered the Grand Canyon and other major physical landmarks of the region.
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Elizabeth became queen in1558 and would rule England until 1603, and in that time make England a power nation.
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St. Augustine was founded by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and served as the capital of Spanish Florida for two hundred years.
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English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean.
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The Roanoke Island colony, the first English settlement in the New World, was founded by English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh in August 1585
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Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain's Invincible Armada is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
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The colony of Virginia was founded by the London Company. The company sent 104 men to Virgina and they founded Jamestown.
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A group of 100 people belonging to a joint venture called the Virginia Company, founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River calls Jamestown.
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King Charles I grants a patent to Sir Robert Heath for the Carolina territory.
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The first colonists to Maryland arrive at St. Clement's Island on Maryland's western shore and found the settlement of St. Mary's
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Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state.
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Leaders of the English Commonwealth ordered Charles II, the exiled king of England, to assume the throne and end 11 years of military rule.
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Named after King George II, Georgia was first settled by Europeans in 1733, when a group of British debtors led by Englishmen James E. Oglethorpe traveled up the Savannah River and established Georgia's first permanent settlement called Savannah
