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Period: Apr 19, 1500 to
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Apr 27, 1521
The Battle of Mactan
Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philippines while searching for the Spice Islands and took part in the battle of Mactan where Lapu-Lapu's army killed him. -
Nov 8, 1521
Cortez defeats Montezuma
Cortés entered Tenochtitlán, known as Mexico City today, on November 8 1519, with his small Spanish force and only 1,000 Tlaxcaltecs allies. Montezuma, ruler of the Aztec’s believing him to incarnate the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, received him with great honor. Cortés soon decided to seize Montezuma in order to hold the country through its monarch and achieve not only its political conquest but its religious conversion. -
Tisquantum Greets the Mayflower
Tisquantum provided Pilgrims with survival information after finally traveling home to find out his tribe was wiped out by disease. -
Island in the Pacific Ocean discovered
In the Summer of 1774 Captain James Cook discovered several Island chains in the Pacific Ocean. -
Louis Braille invented Braille
Louis Braille, a French 12-year-old, who was also blind. And his work changed the world of reading and writing, forever. A former soldier named Charles Barbier visited the school. Barbier shared his invention called "night writing," a code of 12 raised dots that let soldiers share top-secret information on the battlefield without even having to speak. Unfortunately, the code was too hard for the soldiers, but not for 12-year-old Louis who turned the 12 dot systen into 6. -
Sending of telegraph over a distance of 40 miles
In 1835, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire. He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper - the invention of Morse Code. On May 1, 1844 news was wired from Annapolis Junction by Morse's partner, Alfred Vail, to the Capitol. This was the first news dispatched by electric telegraph. -
European trade with Africa becomes established.
In 1850, the Europeans had established a solid system of trade with the Africans. The untapped supply of raw materials in Africa would be invaluable to advancing any European country's own industrial revolution. This also was in their favor because it allowed them to begin the process of extending their empires and would convert many Africans to Christianity. -
Charles Francis Brush designed generator systems
In December of 1880 Charles Francis designed generators that were reliable and automatically increased voltage with greater load while keeping current constant. By 1881, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Montreal, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cleveland and other cities had Brush arc light systems, producing public light well into the 20th century.[New York central power plant dynamos powered arc lamps for public lighting. -
Thomas Edison invented the first Christmas lights.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first successful practical light bulb, created the very first strand of electric lights. During the Christmas season of 1880, these strands were strung around the outside of his Menlo Park Laboratory. Railroad passengers traveling by the laboratory got their first look at an electrical light display. But it would take almost forty years for electric Christmas lights to become the tradition that we all know and love. -
American’s destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay
On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain and the Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, ordered Dewey to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines. The Battle of Manila Bay was the first hostile engagement of the Spanish-American War. On May 1, 1898 had destroyed the Spanish fleet -
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