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Columbus lands in the Bahamas but believes he found the new water route to Indies.
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Treaty between Spain and Portugal divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian, west of the Cape Verde islands.
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Da Gama reaches India. It was the first time anyone had travelled to India by sea from Europe.
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Ponce de Leon reached the east coast of Florida. Ponce named the land "Pascua de Florida" or feast of flowers because they first spotted land on April 2, 1513 on Palm Sunday. Then Claimed the land for spain.
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Balboa claims all alnds touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain.
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1519 - 1521
Cortes convince the Aztecs into believing that he was a god. Then he conquered the Aztec kingdom. -
Ferdinand Magellan's vessel completed its circumnavigation of the world.
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A Florentine explorer of North America, in the service of the King Francis I of France.
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Pizzaro reached the Inca town of Cajamarca. There he tricked and ambush Atahuallpa. Later Pizzaro executed Atahuallpa
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The king ordered Jacques to find gold, spices and a water passage from France to Asia.
Two months later, on June 9, Cartier sailed into the waters of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada. He discovered an important waterway into the vast areas of Canada but didn't reach Asia -
1539 - 1542
Hernando de Soto explored the southeast and discovered the Mississippi River. -
1540 - 1542
Coronado explored present day southwest. He settled there and later became the governor of an important Mexican province. -
Cabrillo explored California coast for Spain and proved that it was not an island.
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The spanish built a fortress at St. Augustine to protect the city
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Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois legend.
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1598 - 1609
The Spanish conquer the Pueblo peoples of the Rio Grande Valley, under command of Ornate. -
After the Battle of Acoma the Spanish claimed this land. About a year later, they named Santa Fe the capital city.
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An uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish. Pueblo killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province.
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La Salle ordered the French lead an expedition down the Mississippi River.
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A friar by the name of Junipero Serra founded the mission chain in Alta California in the Las Californias province in New Spain.
