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Aug 19, 1508
Juan Ponce de Leon and Christopher Columbus
Both were on a voyage together to the New World , and Juan was the first governor of Puerto Rico. -
Aug 20, 1516
Duke Charles
Duke Charles of Burgundy , beacame king of Spain -
Aug 19, 1524
Fransisco Pizzaro
Conqured the Inca empire -
Aug 20, 1535
Jaques Cartier
discovered the NE part of th4e continent he discovered the St.Lawrence River. -
Aug 19, 1540
Garcia Lopez Cardenas
first exploreer to see the grand canyons -
Aug 21, 1545
Sir Francis Drake
he led the second voyage around the world lasting from 1577- 1580. Sir Drake was a slave trader, pirate working for the government , naval pfficer , and mayor of Plymouth, England. -
Aug 19, 1565
St.Augustine
was founded by the the spanish and is now the oldest city in the USA -
Aug 20, 1568
william the silent
when the nobels united, revolt began and the spanish controlled the land and the rebels controlled the seas -
Aug 20, 1574
important moment
the dutch opened up the seawalls to sail across the farmland to defend besieged Leiden -
Aug 20, 1581
Independance
Ithe northern places declared their independence as The Netherlands or the Dutch Republic. -
Samuel de Champlain
founded Quebec -
William Dampier
Dampier was a pirate , he traveled to Austrailia , Southeast Asia , and the South seas . He also discorved New Britian. -
Jacquees Marquette
led an exploration with 5 other people and 2 other countries -
Marquette Juliet
along with Marquette Juliet went on the exploration and they found a tribe to attack known as St.Louis now. On the wayy back juliet left them to go on a different route in 1674. -
James Cook
for his first expedition he sailed to Tahiti in order to observe Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun ,in order to try to determine the distance between the Earth and the Sun, During this expedition, he also mapped New Zealand and eastern Australia -
Sir Richard Francis Burton
He was the first European to see many Muslim cities and Lake Tanganyika
