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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]
Departed Seville with other four ships 10 August 1519. Broke down in Moluccas, December 1521 San Antonio: Juan de Cartagena: 55 [35] 120 Deserted in the Strait of Magellan, November 1520, [36] returned to Spain on 6 May 1521 [37] Concepción: Gaspar de Quesada: 44 then 45 after a stop-over in Tenerife [38] 90 Scuttled in the Philippines, May ...
Around 1519–1521, with a mission to establish colonies for Portugal, João Álvares Fagundes explored the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Nova Scotia. In 1521, Juan Ponce de León attempted to establish a permanent settlement on the west coast of Florida. The landing place has not been determined.
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 ...
Aztec calendar (sunstone) Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and ...
1521 – Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quexos find the mouth of a river they name "Rio de San Juan Bautista" (perhaps Winyah Bay at the mouth of the Pee Dee River in modern South Carolina). [ 29 ] 1521 – Cristóvão Jacques explores the Plate River and explores the Parana River , entering it for about 23 leagues (around 140 km), to near the ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain – available as The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517–1521 ISBN 0-306-81319-X; Durán, Diego. The History of the Indies of New Spain (1581). Translated and edited by Doris Heyden. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1994. ISBN 978-0806-14107-7; León-Portilla, Miguel (Ed.) (1992) [1959].