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Ferdinand & Isabella - 1492 send Columbus to the "New World." | 1497 - Henry VII takes over rule of Britain & sends John Cabot to explore America |
First European, Ponce de Leon reaches American soil - 1513 |
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Documentation of nahualt language - 1524 |
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Cabeza de Vaca in Florida/Mexico City - 1527-1534 |
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Coronado in U.S. Southwest de Soto in S.U.S. - 1539 |
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Spanish adopted the "new laws" - 1542 |
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Diseases from Europe plagued colonies - late 1500s |
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| 1607 - Jamestown est. |
| 1619 - Founding of Plymouth colony |
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Timeline
The following is a list of important events in the Spanish & English colonization of the Americas (composed by everyone in section).
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1637 - Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony killed between 300 and 700 women and children of the Pequot village because the Puritans came to the assumption that the local Pequots killed two white men. They later burned down the village.
1542- Fray Bartolome de las Casas
First ordained priest in America's. Launched a famous campaign (mostly through polemics) against Indian enslavement. Because he greatly exaggerated Indian genocide numbers he is attributed as the source for the "Leyenda Negra" or "Black Legend'
I wrote the fact about European diseases in the late 1500's in class.
1767 - The colonial elite succeeded in getting the Jesuits, the most independent of the monastic orders, expelled from the New World. (By then, there were 2,200 Jesuits working in the colonies and more than 700,000 Indians resided in their missions.)
1754-1763: French and Indian War. This 9 year war took place between the British and the allied forces of the French and the Indians(although some Indians, such as the Iroquois, fought for the British). The French won the first few battles, but were eventually overcome by the British. The war ended at the Battle of Signal Hill.
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