The Americas and Oceania Timeline

  • Period: 950 to 1150

    High Point of the Toltec empire

  • Period: 1001 to 1100

    (11th Century) Beginning of population growth in Pacific islands

  • Period: 1101 to 1200

    (12th Century)Beginning of two-way voyages between Hawai'i and Tahiti and the Marquesas islands

  • 1175

    Collapse of the Toltec empire

  • Period: 1201 to 1300

    (13th Century)Emergence of distinct social classes and chiefly states

  • 1250

    Inca settlement near Cuzco

  • Period: 1301 to 1400

    (14th Century)Construction of fishponds in Hawai'i

  • 1345

    Foundation of Tenochtitlan by the Mexica

  • 1400

    Emergence of the five Iroquois nations

  • Period: 1428 to 1440

    Reign of the Aztec ruler Itzcóatl

  • Period: 1438 to 1471

    Reign of the Inca ruler Pachacuti

  • Period: 1440 to 1469

    Reign of the Aztec ruler Motecuzoma I

  • Period: 1502 to 1520

    Reign of the Aztec ruler Motecuzoma II

  • 1519

    Arrival of Spanish conquerors in Mexico