Timeline and Terms

Events

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Balboa reached the Pacific
Brazil discovered
British colony established
Bylot and Baffin’s Arctic explorations
Columbian Exchange
Columbus’s Barcelona Letter published
Columbus’s final Atlantic trip
Coronado explored the Southwest
Cortés in the Western Hemisphere
Cortés invaded Mexico
De Soto explored the Southwest
Drake on the West Coast
Establishment of Acadia
European discovery of the New World
Exploration of Hudson River
Explorations by Amerigo Vespucci
Explorations by Giovanni da Verrazzano
Explorations by John Cabot
Frobisher sought Northwest Passage
Inter Caetera
John White in Roanoke
Magellan’s circumnavigation
Marco Polo traversed Silk Road
Mississippi River discovered
Pizarro conquered Inca Empire
Ponce de Leon in Florida
Roanoke found deserted
Treaty of Tordesillas
Vikings in North America
virgin soil epidemic

People

Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Elizabeth I
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Francisco Coronado
Giovanni da Verrazano
Henry Hudson
Hernán Cortés
Hernando de Soto
Jacques Cartier
John Cabot
Juan Ponce de León
Marco Polo
Pope Alexander VI
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
Samuel de Champlain
Vasco da Gama
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Walter Raleigh

Places

Grand Banks
Hispaniola
New World
Northwest Passage
Roanoke
Silk Road

Organizations

conquistadors