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February 5 – Ludovico Sforza's Swiss mercenary army retakes the city of Milan from the French during the Second Italian War. [3] February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen. [4] March 9 – Pedro Álvares Cabral, with a fleet of 13 ships, departs Portugal on a voyage to the ...
1619 – First enslaved Africans to the North American colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia aboard the White Lion. The House of Burgesses, the first democratically elected legislative body in English North America was formed in Jamestown. 1619 – Squanto return to northeast America after living in England.
800–1500: Mississippian culture spawns powerful chiefdoms of great agricultural Moundbuilders throughout the Eastern woodlands. 875: Patayan people begin farming along the Colorado River valley in western Arizona and eastern California. 900: Earliest event recorded in the Battiste Good (1821–22, Sicangu Lakota) Winter count. [5]
– First native peoples enter North America from Asia via Beringia. 11,000 B.C. – Disappearance of the land bridge between North America and Asia. 5000 B.C. – Beginning of agriculture in the Tehuacán Valley matorral. 1500 B.C. – Emergence of Eastern Woodland culture. 1200 B.C. – Emergence of the Olmec culture.
The American Nation: A History of the United States: AP Edition (2008) Egerton, Douglas R. et al. The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888 (2007), college textbook; 530pp; Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830 (2007), 608pp excerpt and text search, advanced synthesis
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A recent estimate is that there were about 60.5 million people living in the Americas immediately before depopulation, [94] of which 90 per cent, mostly in Central and South America, perished from wave after wave of disease, along with war and slavery playing their part.