Atlantic World and Discovery of the New World Timeline

By mishida1
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus's sailed the Ocean Blue

    Columbus's sailed the Ocean Blue
    Columbus set sail to the west after he stopped at Canary Islands. There are some debates whether he landed in San Salvador, Samana Cay, Plana Cays or Grand Turk Island first. The three ships under his command were the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa Mária. He used a technique called Dead Reckoning, which relies on speed traveling, direction, and time.
  • Jan 1, 1511

    First enslaved Africans arrive in the Americas

    First enslaved Africans arrive in the Americas
    on the 22 of January, 1510 is when the ships left for the Americas, I don't know when they landed exactly. Africans were mainly used to process sugar and pick cotton to sell.
  • Jan 1, 1521

    Hernan Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire

    Hernan Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire
    I do not know the exact date. Hernan Cortés conquered the Aztecs because they thought he was the Sun God Quetzalcoatl so they let him into their city Tenochitlan. Their Cortés and his men kidnapped their leader Montezuma II and demanded ransom, but even after they got it they still killed him and then conquered the Aztecs.
  • Feb 1, 1533

    Francisco Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire

    Francisco Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire
    Pizarro took the Incan Leader Atahualpa hostage and demanded ransom. It was basiccly the same thing as what happened with the Aztecs without the thinking they are gods part. They also killed him after they got the ransom.

  • English found Jamestown

    English found Jamestown
    Jamestown was the first permmanent English settlement, but not successful, people were too focused on finding gold that they forgot to plant crops for food. They also found tobaco their which is a cash crop that killed a lot of people in the Columian Exchange. John Smith was an English Explorer and saved the colony from starvation by teaching the colonist to farm. Jamestown was located in Virginia.

  • English Found Plymouth

    English Found Plymouth
    An English settlement founded by Pilgrims and is set on the land that Explorer John Smith scouted. Over time though it eventually became apart of Massachusetts Bay. (I only found out it was in December)

  • French and Indian War ends

    French and Indian War ends
    It had started in 1753, over land in the Ohio Valley between the British and the French. The French did have help from the Indians, but The British still came out on top (,actually the British did get help from some Natives). This resaulted in the Treaty of Paris, where France loses all their rights to Canada and Spain gets Louisiana.