Hello! This post is dates from the past and things you might want to know about each year. We are specifically working on The New World era from years 1492-1646. Enjoy:
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas.
1513 - Ponce de Leon lands in Florida.
1518 - Smallpox, brought by the Europeans, begins to decimate the native populations of Central and South America. The epidemic will last until 1530.
1521 - Surrender of Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital) to Spanish explore/conqueror Hernando Cortes; the Aztec empire falls.
1533 - Henry VIII starts the English Reformation, mainly to gain a divorce from Katherine of Aragon.
1539-1540 - Hernando de Soto begins exploration of what will be the southeastern United States; Francisco Vasquez de Coronado does the same in the Southwest.
1558 - Henry VIII's daughter, Elizabeth, becomes Queen of England.
1584(- 90) - Sir Walter Raleigh starts, and fails, with a colony in Roanoke (an island off North Carolina) the first attempt in North America.
1588- The English Navy, helped by violent storms, defeats the Spanish Armada.
1603 - James I becomes King of England.
1603-05 - Samuel de Champlain of France explores what will be present-day Canada.
1607 - Jamestown (Virginia Colony) is founded.
1611 - The first Virginia tobacco crop is harvested.
1619 - The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.
1620 - Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts) is founded.
1622 - Powhatan Confederacy attacks the Virginia Colony.
1624 - The Dutch settle Manhattan Island.
1625 - Charles I becomes King of England.
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded.
1634 - Maryland is founded as "haven for English Catholics"
1635 - Roger Williams is "expelled" from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founds Providence (Rhode Island).
1636 - Connecticut is founded
1637 - The Pequot War virtually wipes out the Pequot Indian tribe.
1646 - Virginia and Powhatan Confederacy sign peace treaty.
Hahaha...wow....-_- A lot of dates!!!!!! :)
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