Setting the Scene for America

Timespan

Period: Aug 31, 1000 to Aug 31, 2000

Leif Ericson

Sep 4, 1001

Citation The First European to land on the North American Continent was a viking seaman.

Black Death

Aug 31, 1347

Citation A plague that was spread by fleas on rats that killed a lot of people.

Great Schism

Sep 5, 1378

Citation The Great Schism was where there were offten two or sometimes three popes at a time each with its own following. This moved the papacy to France.

Invention of the Printing Press

Sep 4, 1440

citationcitation The printing press helped spread Renaissance learning; large numbers of books could be produced quickly and at a low coast.

Spanish Inquisition

Sep 4, 1487

Citation If you weren't Catholic then the government killed you. A lot of people were burned alive for being Jewish.

Christopher Columbus

Sep 4, 1492

Citation Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain although he was Italian. He was looking for a western sea route from Eroupe to Asia saw land thought he foud Asia when really it was North America.

Spanish Christians conquer the Muslim Moors in Spain

Sep 4, 1492

Citation They were expelled from Spain, but some adopted Christianity and stayed.

John Cabot

Jun 24, 1497

Citation He sailed for England on June 24 and his crew sighted the coast of North America went ashore and claimed land for the English king.

Protestant Reformation

Sep 4, 1517

citaiton Protestants slit and formed many different churches that Martin Luther King started.

Hernando Cortes

Sep 4, 1519

Citation Hernando Cortes was a Spanish warrior who began the conqes to the Aztec Empire.

Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe Apparition

Sep 4, 1531

Citation Juan Diego was visited by Mary she told him not to be afraid and to bulid a shrine of her in that spot . This spread catholcism thourgh the Aztec Empire.

Fancisco Pizarro

Sep 4, 1532

Citation He was a spanich Conquestidor. He was the one who stared the conquest of Peru. He conquered the Incas.

King Henry VIII and the beginning of the Church England

Sep 4, 1534

citationcitation Broke all ties to the Roman Chuch because he coundn't divorce his wife.

Council of Trent

Sep 4, 1545

Citation The Council of Trent was a council that revitalized the Roman Catholic Church in many parts of Europe

The founding of Roanoke

Sep 4, 1585

citationcitation This is where the colonist from England landed. John White went back to England leaving 117 colonists and whould be back in 3 months. It was 3 years before he could get back . When he finally got back, there was no trace of anyone.

The founding of Jamestown

Sep 4, 1607

citationcitation A group of 105 colonist landed in Virgina and establisted Jamestown. It was the first succesful settlement.

Henry Hudson

Aug 31, 1610

Citation He sailed for England. He tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Artic ocean. A river, straight and bay in North America was named after him.

King Louis XIV became king of France

Aug 31, 1643

citationcitation Neglected the opporiunities to gain an empire in America and India and involved France in wars that ruined the country financially and paved the way for the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Marquestte and Joliet

Sep 5, 1673

Citation Marquestte and Joliet were from France and set out to reach the Mississippi.