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1493: Columbus arrives in Puerto Rico. 1494: Columbus arrives in Jamaica. 1496: Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement, is built. [ 7 ] 1497: John Cabot reaches Newfoundland. [ 8 ] 1498: In his third voyage, Columbus reaches Trinidad and Tobago. 1498: La Isabela is abandoned by the Spanish.
- Pre-Columbus Explorations
- Columbus and Later Explorations
- Conquering The New World
- Permanent European Settlements
~13,000 BCE: Hunters and fishers from Asia that archaeologists call Pre-Clovisentered the Americas from eastern Asia and spend the next 12,000 years exploring the coastlines and colonizing the interiors of North and South America. By the time the Europeans arrived, the descendants of the first colonists have populated all of both American continent...
1492–1493: Italian explorer Christopher Columbusmakes three voyages paid for by the Spanish and lands on islands off the coast of the North American continent, not realizing he has found a new land. 1497: Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot (ca. 1450–1500), commissioned by Britain's Henry VII, sights Newfoundland and Labrador, claiming this a...
1519: Spanish conquistadorHernán Cortés(1485–1547) defeats the Aztecs and conquers Mexico. 1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, funded by Charles V of Spain, sails around South America into the Pacific. Despite Magellan'sdeath in 1521, his expedition becomes the first to circumnavigate the globe. 1523: Spanish conquistadorPánfilo de Narváe...
1565:The first permanent European settlement is founded by Spanish admiral and explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519–1574) at St. Augustine, Florida. 1578–1580: As part of his circumnavigation of the globe, English sea captain, privateer and trader of enslaved people Francis Drake (1540–1596) sails around South America and into San Francisco Bay....
Definition. The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the various indigenous people of those regions being replaced and often eradicated.
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Colonial America Timeline (1492-1763) . To Pre-Revolutionary War » 1000 Leif Ericson explores the North American East Coast. 1492 Aug 3. Christopher Columbus sails on First Voyage. 1497 July. John Cabot on his first voyage searching for the Northwest Passage. 1499 Amerigo Vespucci finds the South American Coast. 1507 “America” is first used in a
Oct 19, 2020 · The region of modern-day Brazil was claimed for Portugal in 1500 by the Portuguese aristocrat and mariner Pedro Álvares Cabral (l. c. 1468 - c. 1520) while parts of modern-day Canada were claimed for France after its exploration by the Florentine seaman and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (l. 1485-1528, who mapped the entire eastern seaboard of North America) in 1524, leading to the ...
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In the 1570s and 1580s, Queen Elizabeth I granted royal permission to two Englishmen to colonise America. As Spain had laid claim to much of South and Central America, England’s attention was directed to the eastern coast of North America. Sir Humphrey Gilbert led three unsuccessful attempts to establish a colony in America, but in 1583 was ...
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