Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600)
- Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600)
This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events before 1600.
1400s
*1492 - Christopher Columbus lands on one of the Bahamas Islands, discovering the New World for 15th century Europe
*1497 - Giovanni Caboto lands in Newfoundland, beginning the British presence in North America.
1500s
*1513 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees Pacific Ocean
*1513 - Juan Ponce d defeats Tlaxcala, a small state neighboring the Aztec empire
*1520s - Spanish begin conquest of Maya civilization
*1521 - Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
*1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano, working for France, explores coastline from present-day North Carolina to Maine
*1542 - Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River, strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America
*1570s - Iroquois League founded
*1587 - Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World, in the Virginia territory
*1590 - Roanoke found deserted
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