c. 2000-1500 B.C. - Permanent towns appear in Mexico

800 B.C. - 600 A.D. - Adena Hopewell culture

300 - 900 - Maya culture

1300 - 1519 - Aztec culture
Why cultures collapse

1300 - 1598 - Inca culture

1492 - 1504 - Columbus' four voyages to the New World
 
 
 
  1519 - Hernando Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico - the Age of the Conquistador begins

 1534 - Francisco Pizarro conquers Incas in Peru - Aztec account

1543 - Silver found in Mexico and Bolivia
 
 
 
Horses and the American Indian
 
 
 
     

1565 - Town of St. Augustine founded by the Spanish

1570's - African slaves introduced into the Portuguese sugar plantations

1577 - Sir Francis Drake begins his circumnavigation journey

1587 - Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke "lost colony"

c. 1,000 B.C. - Native-
American introduction of pottery
 
 

c. 1200 A.D. - Permanent Native-American villages established
 
 

1498 - John Cabot sails along Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake
 
 
   
 

1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano passes mouth of Chesapeake Bay

1000 A.D. - Leif Ericsson sights Newfoundland

1215 - Magna Carta signed in England

1455 - Gutenberg's Bible printed

1498 - Vasco da Gama reaches India

1500 - Enclosure movement in England

1517 - Martin Luther's 
95 Theses

1519 - Charles V of Spain is
elected Holy Roman Emperor
 

1534 - Henry VIII made head of the Church of England

1541 - Geneva adopts Calvinist government

1545 -  First session of the Council of Trent

1555 Peace of Augsburg divides Germany

1558 - Elizabeth I named Queen of England

1559 - Definitive edition of Calvin's Institutes of  the Christian Religion

1564 - William Shakespeare born

1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris

1588 - Spanish Armada defeated by the English

1589 - Henry Bourbon assumes throne of France

1598 - Edict of Nantes