Annex: Chronology of the colonization of America until 1599

This section deals with the Chronology of the colonization of America up to 1542.

1490

• 1492: Christopher Columbus reaches the Antilles. This meant the discovery of the "New World" (for the 15th century Europe).
• 1494: Treatise of Tordesillas.
• 1497: Américo Vespucio is the first European to land in South America. On his journey he starts to think he's on a new continent.
• 1497: Giovanni Caboto is the first European to arrive in North America since the arrival of the first Vikings. Reivindicates these lands for England.
• 1499: second voyage of Américo Vespucio with Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa. On this occasion he travels south of the continent, and is the first European to discover the jiquilisco river.

1500

• 1500 - Pedro Álvares Cabral plays land in Brazil during a trip to India and demands the territory for Portugal.
• 1501 - Rodrigo de Bastidas runs along the Venezuelan coastline, discovers the Magdalena River and the Gulf of Urabá, and arrives in Panama.
• 1513 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses the Panama isthmus, the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean along the Atlantic route.
• 1513 - Juan Ponce de León claims the possession of Florida for the Kingdom of Spain.
• 1519 - The foundation Villa Rica de la Vera CruzToday Veracruz, the first city of North America.
• 1519 - Hernán Cortés defeats the chontales in the battle of Centla, a small state close to the neighboring empire [[Inca Empire].
• 1520 - The Kingdom of Castile begins the conquest of Mayan civilization.
• 1521 - Hernán Cortés wins at the Tenochtitlan site.
• 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano, on behalf of the French crown, explores the coast of what is currently from North Carolina to Maine.
• 1532 - 1533- Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire.
• 1540 - Pedro de Valdivia arrives in the Copiapó river valley, located in the current region of Atacama, Chile
• 1542: The Spanish Kings forbid the slavery of the indigenous.