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The New World - Timeline

- The New World
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Hispaniola, the first Spanish settlement (1493)
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Cabot reaches Newfoundland (1497)
- Columbus reaches South America (1498)
- First slaves transported to Latin America (c 1510)
- Spanish colonization of Mexico (1519-1535)
- Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire (1519-1521)
- Magellan crosses the Pacific (1520)
- Portuguese colonization of Brazil (1530-1567)
- Spanish colonization of Peru, Chile and Argentina (1532-1553)
- Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire (1532-1534)
- Silver mining begins (1545)
- Potosi (Peru)
- Zacatecas (Mexico)
- Portuguese begin sugar cultivation in Brazil (c 1560)
- First permanent English settlement in America (1607)
- French colonists found Quebec (1608)
- First slaves transported to North America (1619)
- Pilgrim Fathers land in New England (1620)
- Dutch settle New Amsterdam (1625)
- New Amsterdam (New York) taken by British (1664)
- La Salle claims Louisiana for France (1684)
- Gold discovered in Brazil (1693)
- Bering begins reconnaissance of Alaska (1728)
- The American Revolution (1775-1776)
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