Chapter 2 APUSH timeline By Abbyivey 1000 Norse settlement at L'Anse aux meadows Period: 1347 to 1353 Black Death in Europe 1381 English Peasant Revolts 1488 Bartolomeu Dias sails around the African continents 1492 Chrisopher Colombus first arrives in the Caribbean 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas 1497 John Cabot explores Newfoundland 1500 High point of the Renaissance 1508 Spanish invade Puerto Rico 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida 1514 Bartolome de las casas begins preaching against the conquest 1516 Smallpox introduced to the New World 1517 Martin Luther breaks with the Roman Catholic Church 1519 Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico 1534 Jacques Cartier explores the ST. Lawrence River Period: 1539 to 1540 hernando de soto and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado expeditions 1550 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1552 Bartolome de las Casas "Destruction of the Indies" published 1558 Elizabeth 1 of England begins her reign 1562 Huguenot colony planted along the mid-atlantic coast 1565 St.Augustine founded 1583 Humphrey Gilbert attempts to plant a colony in Newfoundland Period: 1584 to 1587 Walter Raleighs colony on Roanoke Island 1588 Englsih defeat the Spanish Armada 1590 John White returns to find Roanoke colony abandoned