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1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire. 1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida. 1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador. 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast. 1525: Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay and reaches Nova Scotia [9] [10]
1521 – Pope Leo X grants Franciscan Francis Quiñones permission and faculties to go as a missionary to the New World together with Juan Clapión; 1521 Diet of Worms condemns Luther; 1521 Ferdinand Magellan claims the Philippines for Spain, first mass and subsequent conversion to Catholicism, first in East Asia
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
The route of the Victoria, which completed the world's first recorded circumnavigation over about 3 years.. The Magellan expedition (10 August or 20 September 1519 – 6 September 1522) was the first voyage around the world in human history.
[34]: 321–25 Cuauhtemoc's forces were defeated four times in March 1521, around Chalco and Huaxtepec, and Cortés received another ship load of arms and men from the Emperor. [34]: 326–32 On 6 April 1521, Cortés met with the caciques around Chalco, and announced he would "bring peace" and blockade Mexico. He wanted all of their warriors ...
Huntington (West Virginia) Directory, Potts & Cammack, 1891; Charter of the City of Huntington, West Virginia. 1909. Archived from the original on March 8, 2017; Lucius H. Cammack, ed. (1916). Huntington. Huntington Chamber of Commerce. Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Huntington". West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State.
The Drain-Jordan Library Archives and Special Collection houses materials on the history of WVSU, alumni and employees. The archive also collects information pertaining to African-Americans in West Virginia, African-American higher education, West Virginia and Appalachian region history. [24] Kanawha County Public Library: Public Library ...
Mason County, West Virginia – An Archaeological Treasure Photos and descriptions of artifacts from protohistoric sites in West Virginia; Images from Moorefield Village Site 46 Hy 89 Archived June 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Photos from a Susquehannock site; Videos of West Virginia archeology, Division of Culture and History