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Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, discovered the Americas.
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Columbus returned to the Carribean island of hispaniola, present day Haiti, with seventeen ships that unloaded 1200 men and a virtual Noah's Arc.
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Spain secured its claim to Columbus's discovery in the Treaty of Tordesilles, dividing with Portugal the "Heathen Lands" of the New World.
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Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain.
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Hernan Cortes set sail from Cuba with 16 horses and several hundred men aboard eleven ships, bound for Mexico.
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Leader Hernan Cortes defeats Mexico for Spain.
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Cortes laid seige to the city of Tenochtitlan, defeating the Aztecs.
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Juan Ponce de Leon explored Florida, which he first thought was an island.
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Magellen's vessel completes their trip around the world.
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The French king sent an Italian mariner, Giovanii da Verrazano to probe the east coast.
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In South America, the very strong conqueror Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas of Peru.
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Cartier journeys up the St. Lawerence River.
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De Sotot explores the Southeastand comes upon a river know as the Mississippi River.
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Coronado explores present-day Southwest and finds the Colorado river.
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Juan Cabrillo had explored the California coast, but failed to locate the Sanfrancisco Bay or anything else that was interesting.
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The Spanish erected a fortress in this settlement in Florida, making it the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the future U.S.
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The Spanish severed on foot of each of its survivors. This is because the Spiniards abused the Pueblos.
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Among conquering Mexico, The spanish founded and settled in New Mexico.
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Spanish under Onate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley.
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The pope, Korah, holds a rebellion in the settlement of New Mexico.
