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Oct 12, 1492
"Discovery" of New World
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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May 20, 1498
Da Gama reaches India
Da Gama a portugese sailor reaches India -
Sep 21, 1498
Cabot explores Northeast coast of New World
Cabot explores northeast coast of North America for England -
Jul 1, 1513
Land touched by Pacific claimed for Spain
Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean in the name of Spain -
Sep 21, 1513
Ponce de Leon explores Florida
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Sep 21, 1517
Martain Luther begins Protestant Reformation
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Period: Sep 21, 1519 to Sep 21, 1521
Cortes conquers Mexico
Cortez conquers mexico in the name of Spain by defaeting the Aztecs -
Period: Sep 21, 1519 to Sep 21, 1522
Mangellan's circumnavigation of the world
Mangellan was a portugese sailor that is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world -
Sep 21, 1521
Ponce de Leon explores Florida
It is believed after the fountain of youth -
Sep 21, 1524
Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America
Verazano explored the eastern seaboard in the name of France -
Sep 21, 1532
Pizzaro conquers Incas
Pizzaro crushes the Incas -
Sep 21, 1536
Institutes of the Christian Published
John Calvin of Geneva wrote it -
Sep 21, 1542
De Soto discovers Mississippi
De Soto explored the Southeastern United States and discovered the Mississippi River -
Sep 21, 1558
Elizabeth becomes Queen of England
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Sep 21, 1565
Fortress built at St. Augustine by Spanish
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Period: Sep 21, 1565 to
English crush Irish Uprising
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Sep 21, 1577
Drake circumnavigates the globe
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Period: Sep 21, 1580 to
Iroquis conferacy founded
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Raleigh founds Roanoke
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Engish defaet Spanish Armada
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James l becomes king of England
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Jamestown founded
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Spanish found New Mexico
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First africans arrive at Jamestown
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House of Burgesses founded at Virginia
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Viginia becomes royal colony
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Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Maryland colony founded
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Connecticut founded
Roger Williams founded Connecticutt -
Harvard founded
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Carolina colony founded
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Beacon's rebellion
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Pope's rebellion
Not like the Catholic Pope. It happened in New Mexico -
French expedition down Mississppi
The expedition was done under Lasalle in the 1608s' -
pennsylvania founded
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn -
Salem witch trials
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Carolina seperates
This Creates North and South Carolina -
Georgia colony founded