Timeline: Discovery and Exploration

Timelines & Date Keys for
Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 1: Discovery and Exploration

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Timeline: Discovery and Exploration 1400 to 1600

Dates for the events shown:

Portuguese begin explorations - 1420s
Printing press invented - 1450
Dias rounds Africa - 1487-88
1st voyage of Columbus - 1492-93
Cabot reaches North America - 1497 (Again in 1498)
Vespucci explores Brazil - 1499 (Again in 1501/1502)
Magellan begins world voyage - 1519 (M. dies 1521)
Cortes conquers the Aztecs - 1521
Pizarro conquers the Incas - 1533
Cartier explores Canada - 1534 (Again in 1535)
de Soto finds the Mississippi - 1541
St. Augustine founded - 1565
The Lost Colony - 1587-90?
Spanish Armada destroyed - 1588

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