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Sep 12, 1295
Marco Polo
Marco Polo returns to Europe with stories about the East. -
Sep 12, 1450
Portugal mariners
Portugal decide to try to find a route to Asia. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovery
Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas -
Sep 12, 1519
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes leaves Cuba to go to Mexico -
Sep 12, 1520
Noche Triste
Aztecs attack the Spanish -
Sep 12, 1521
Smallpox epidemic
Smallpox epidemic burns throughout the Valley of Mexico -
Sep 12, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan completees the first circumnavigtion of he globe -
Sep 12, 1530
King Hengry VIII
King Hengry VIII breaks from Roman Catholic Church -
Sep 12, 1532
Peru
Incas of Peru are crshed by Francisco -
Sir Walter's Raleigh's expedition
lands on North Carolina's Roanoke Island -
Spanish Armada
Spanish vs. English; English win -
Virginia
Virginia is founded -
john Rolfe
Tobacco culture is perfected -
Africans in Jamestown
First Africans arrve in Jamestown -
Maryland
Maryland is founded -
Act of Toleration
Christians are tolerated but Jews and athesist are not. -
Barbado slave code
slaves get no rights -
Carolina
Carolina is created -
Pope's Rebellion
Pueblo kills and destroys Catholic Church -
Carolinas separate