Colonial ERA Timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus encountered the New World for the first time

    Columbus reached land, Watling Island in the Bahamas
  • Sep 11, 1500

    French began fur trade with Indians

    As an exchange between the Indians and Europeans
    Trade started after the French offered the Indians kettles and knives, an all other stuff
  • Apr 20, 1534

    Jaque Cartier sailed the St. Lawerence

    Cartier arrived on his two ships and with his 61 men they arrived in 2o days explored an discovered other countries, went through St. Lawerence
  • Sep 10, 1538

    Hernando de Soto's expedition of the Southeast

    Searching for greater golry and riches to conquer Florida the crown.
    His men and him traveled 4,000 miles throughout the regions to become Southeastern in the United States searchin for some riches.
  • Sep 10, 1540

    Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas

    They wanted to determine if the route actually led the expedition from West Mexico to the coast of central Kansas
  • Sep 8, 1565

    Spanish established St. Augustine, Florida

    Pedro Menedez de Aviles landed on shore Matanzas Bay and began founding on St. Augustine, Florida
  • Beaver Wars

    The Iroquois participated in the fur trade principally with Dutch and British merchants
  • Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec

    He founded Quebec City, and its really important because, he made the first accurate map pf the coast
  • Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe

    Juan de Onate founded the new capital at San Gabriel de Yunque-Ouinge the controled the colony, moved to New mexico capital to Santa Fe
  • Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi

    They undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France
  • The Pueblo Revolt

    People known as "Pueblos" rebelled against their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest.
    Spaniards had dominated them from their land, and their lives, their souls for eight decades