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  • Period: 7000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    The Archaic Period of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Olmec Civilization

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 900

    Mayan Civilization

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 200 BCE

    The Olmec Period of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 1150 BCE to 900 BCE

    Height of San Lorenzo (Olmec)

  • 1000 BCE

    Saladoid People Settled into their Cultures

  • Period: 900 BCE to 500 BCE

    Height of La Venta (Olmec)

  • Period: 600 BCE to 900

    Zapotec Civilization

  • Period: 600 BCE to 800

    The Zapotec Period of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 400 BCE to 1493

    The Taíno Civilization

  • 250 BCE

    Saladoid People Have Migrated to the Caribbean

  • Period: 200 to 900

    The Teotihuacan Period of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 250 to 950

    The Classic Mayan Period of Mesoamerica

  • Period: 250 to 900

    The El Tajin Period

  • 600

    Ostionoid People Emerge from Saladoid People

  • Period: 900 to 1100

    Toltec Civilization

  • Period: 950 to 1524

    Post-Classic Period of Mesoamerica

  • 1100

    Aztecan City-States (altepetl) Began to Compete

  • 1400

    Several Small Aztecan Empires Began Forming

  • 1428

    The Tepanec War Starts

  • 1492

    Columbus Set Sail

  • 1493

    First European Contact with New World Made by Christopher Columbus

  • 1494

    Columbus Establishes First American Colony at La Isabela (North Coast of Hispaniola)

  • 1506

    Christopher Columbus Dies

  • 1508

    Spanish Establish Permanent Presence with Ponce de León as the first Governor

  • 1508

    Ponce de León founded first Spanish Settlement in Puerto Rico

  • 1511

    Rebelion of Taínos

  • Aug 8, 1511

    Pope Julius II creates two dioceses in Puerto Rico

  • Dec 27, 1512

    Laws of Burgos

  • 1514

    40% of Spanish Men Had Taken Indigenous Wives

  • 1514

    The Spanish Crown Grants Permission to Spaniards to marry native Taínos

  • 1517

    First European contact with Mexico

    Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, the first European to visit Mexican territory, arrives in the Yucantán from Cuba with three ships and about 100 me
  • 1519

    Pope Leo X declares Puerto Rico the first ecclesiastical headquarters in the New World

  • 1519

    Hernán Cortes is sent

    Cortés sets sail from Cuba with 11 ships, more than 450 soldiers and a large number of supplies under the orders of Diego Velásquez.
  • 1519

    Cortés arrives in Tenochtitlán

    Cortés and his men arrive in Tenochtitlán and are welcomed as honored guests by Moctezuma and his people — he then took Moctezuma hostage and gained control of Tenochtitlán
  • 1520

    Charles I emancipates the Taíno people

  • 1521

    Hernán Cortez Attacks the Aztec Empire

  • 1521

    Ponce de León Dies

  • 1522

    San Juan founded as Capital of Puerto Rico

  • Jan 24, 1522

    San Jose Church Founded

    The San Jose church is the oldest church still in use in America
  • 1523

    First sugar cane processing plant built

  • 1525

    Spanish Rule Expands

    Spanish rule had been extended as far south as Guatemala and Honduras after the colonization of other remaining indigenous tribes.The only area in southern Mexico of effective indigenous resistance was Yucatán, inhabited by Maya societies
  • 1539

    Spain begins constructing massive defenses around San Juan

  • 1570

    Gold mines declared depleted in Puerto Rico

  • 1582

    Whole Island Identified as Puerto Rico

  • Puerto Rico attacked by British forces

  • King Philip IV begins to fortify San Cristóbal Fort

  • La Rogativa

  • Invasion by Napoleon of the Iberian Peninsula

  • Defeated Napoleónico Forces

  • Puerto Rico Census

  • Royal Academy of Belles Letters founded

  • Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico

  • Puerto Rican flag is first used

  • War of Cuban independence from Spain begins

  • Charter of Autonomy

  • US congress declares war on Spain

  • First battle between Spanish and American forces

    In the first battle between Spanish and American forces, US commodore Dewy and his Asiatic squadron defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines

  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives from the US and Spain. After extensive debate, the treaty is ratified by the US senate on February 6, 1899. Under the treaty, the US acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

  • US institutes civil government in Puerto Rico

    US congress institutes civil government in Puerto Rico under the Foraker Act. US maintains strict control over island affairs, prompting demands for more local control.

  • Jones Act grants US citizenship to Puerto Ricans