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Timeline of United States history (Beginnings to 1599)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events up to 1599
.
1400s
1492
-
Christopher Columbus
lands on one of the
Bahamas
Islands, "discovering" the
New World
(for 15th-century Europe)
1494
-
Treaty of Tordesillas
1497
-
John Cabot
is the first European since the Vikings to reach North American mainland, which he claims for England
1500s
1513
-
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
crosses isthmus of Panama, sees
Pacific Ocean
1513
-
Juan Ponce de Leon
claims
Florida
for Spain
1519
-
Hernando Cortes
defeats Tlaxcala, a small state within the
Aztec
empire
1520s-Spanish begin conquest of
Mayan
lands
1521
-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
1524
-
Giovannia da Verrazano[?]
, working for France, explores coastline from present-day North Carolina to Maine
1542
-
Hernando de Soto
discovers the Mississippi River, strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America
1570s-
Iroquois League[?]
founded
1587
-Sir
Walter Raleigh
founds
Roanoke
, the first British settlement in the New World, in the
Virginia
territory
1590
-Roanoke found deserted
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1600-1699
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