Unit 2

By Javieris7
  • Sep 18, 1295

    Marco Polo returns to Europe.

    Marco Polo returns to Europe.
  • Sep 18, 1400

    Spain becomes united, in the late 1400

  • Sep 18, 1488

    Dias rounds Southern tip of Africa

  • Sep 18, 1492

    Columbus land in the Bahamas

  • Sep 18, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

  • Sep 18, 1498

    Da Gama reaches India Cabot explores northeastern coast of America for England

  • Sep 18, 1513

    Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean

  • Period: Sep 18, 1513 to Sep 18, 1521

    Ponce de León explores Florida

  • Sep 18, 1519

    Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain

  • Period: Sep 18, 1519 to Sep 18, 1521

    Cortés conquers Mexico for Spain

  • Sep 18, 1521

    Cortés conquers of Mexico ends

  • Sep 18, 1522

    Magellan's vessel completers circumnavigation of the world

  • Sep 18, 1524

    Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France

  • Sep 18, 1532

    Pizarro crushes Incas

  • Sep 18, 1539

    De Soto explores the Sutheast and discovers the Mississippi River

  • Period: Sep 18, 1539 to Sep 18, 1542

    DE Soto explores present-day Southwest

  • Period: Sep 18, 1540 to Sep 18, 1542

    Coronado explores present-day Southwest

  • Sep 18, 1542

    Cabrllo explores California coast for Spain

  • Sep 19, 1558

    Elizabeth I became queen of England

  • Sep 18, 1565

    Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine

  • Period: Sep 19, 1565 to

    English crush Irish uprising

  • Sep 19, 1577

    Drake circumnavigates the globe

  • Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island

  • Enngland defeats Spanish Armada

  • Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois lengend

  • Period: to

    Spanish under Oñate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande valley

  • James I became king of England

  • Spain and England sign peace treaty

  • Virginia colony founded at Jamestown

  • Spanish found New Mexico

  • Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia

  • First Anglo-Powhatan War ends

  • First Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia House of Burgesses established

  • Virginia becaoes royal colony

  • Maryland colony founded

  • Large-scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies

  • Second Anglo-Powhatan War

  • Act of Toleration in Maryland Charles I beheaded; Vromwell rules England

  • Charles II restored to English throne

  • Barbados slave code adopted

  • Carolina colony created

  • Popé's Rebellion in New Mexico

  • French expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle

  • Period: to

    Tuscarora War in North Carolina

  • North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina

  • Period: to

    Yamasee War in South Carolina

  • Georgia colony founded

  • Serra founds first California mission, at San Diego