Chapter 18 Timeline Exercise

New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500–1800

1492

1500

1516-1556

1519-1521

1521

1532-1533

1533

1545

1607

1608

1690

Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean

Reign of Charles V, Habsburg king of Spain and the Americas

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico

Reign of Cuauhtémoc, last ruler of the Aztec Empire

Reign of Atahualpa, last ruler of the Inca Empire

Quebec City, first permanent French settlement

Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru

Jamestown, Virginia, first permanent English settlement

Gold discovered in Brazil

Founding of silver mine of Potosí

Pedro Álvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal

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