Enlish/Spanish History

By ramart
  • 30,000 BCE

    First humans cross to America from Asia

  • 30,000 BCE

    (S) First humans cross from Asia to America

  • 5000 BCE

    (S) Corn is developed

  • 4000 BCE

    (S) First civilized settlements in Middle East

  • 1200 BCE

    (S) Planting corn expands to the Southwest of America

  • 1000

    (S) Norse voyagers discover and temporarily settle in Northeastern America

  • 1000

    (S) Corn reaches Midwest and Southeast

  • 1100

    (S) Missippi settlement peaks

  • 1100

    (S) Christian crusades arouse European interest in the east

  • 1295

    (S) Marco polo returns to Europe

  • 1442

    (E) Large-Scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies

    1440's
  • 1470

    (S) Spain becomes united

    late 1400's
  • 1488

    (S) Dias rounds southern tip of Africa

  • 1492

    (S) Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • 1494

    (S) Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugual

  • 1498

    (S) Da Gama reaches India

  • 1498

    (S) Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America

  • 1513

    (S) Balboa claims all land touched by Pacific Ocean for Spain

  • 1513

    (S) Ponce de Leon explores Florida

  • 1519

    (S) Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain

  • 1522

    (S) Megellan vessel completes circumnavigation of the world

  • 1524

    (S) Verzartio explores eastern of North America

  • 1532

    (S) Pizarro destroys Incas

  • 1534

    (S) Cartier journeys up the St Lawrence River

  • 1539

    (S) De Soto discovers Mississippi River

  • 1540

    (S) Coronado explores Southwest

  • 1542

    (S) Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain

  • 1558

    (E) Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

  • 1565

    (S) Spanish build St. Augustine Fortress

  • 1565

    (E) English crushes uprising of Irish

  • 1570

    (S) Iroguois Confederacy founded

    late 1500's
  • 1577

    (E) Drake circumnavigates the globe

  • (E) Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island

  • (E) England defeats Spanish Armada

  • (S) Spanish conquest Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande Valley

  • (E) James I becomes king of England

  • (E) Spain and England sign peace treaty

  • (E) Virginia colony founded at Jamestown

  • (S) Spanish found New Mexico

  • (E) Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia

  • (E) First Anglo-Powhatan War ends

  • (E) First Africans arrive in Jamestown

  • (E) Virginia House of Burgesses established

  • (E) Virginia becomes royal colony

  • (E) Maryland colony founded

  • (E) Second Anglo-Powhatan War

  • (E) Act of Toleration in Maryland

  • (E) Charles I beheaded

  • (E) Cromwell rules England

  • (E) Charles II restored to English Throne

  • (E) Barbados slave code adopted

  • (E) Carolina colony created

  • (S) Pope's Rebellion in New Mexico

  • (S) French expedition down Mississippi River

    1680's

  • (E) Tuscarora War in North Carolina

  • (E) Yamasee War in South Carolina

  • (E) Georgia colony founded

  • (S) Serra founds first California mission at San Diego