HIST 415 Timeline By Xenophon2 9999 BCE Humans Arrive in the Americas 7000 BCE Archaic Indians Flourish 1000 BCE Mesoamerican Horticulture Developments 1491 Columbus Discovers the New World 1493 Spain Establishes First European Settlement in the Americas 1519 Cortés conquers the Aztecs 1532 Spain Conquers the Incan Empire 1541 Spanish Expiditions to North America 1607 Quebec is founded 1607 Jamestown is Established 1619 The first Puritians arrive in North America 1630 The Puritan Great Migration 1630 Maryland is established. 1644 Defeat of Opechancanough. 1659 The island of Barbados produces the majority of England's sugar. 1670 English Colonists move from the West Indies to Carolina 1673 The French Government Ceases to Fund New Colonists 1674 Dutch Goverment Surrenders New Netherlands 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1680 Pueblo Revolt 1682 The French Establish Louisiana 1684 English King James II Takes the Throne 1691 Salem Witch Trials 1699 The Haudenosaunee make peace with the French and their allies 1702 Catawbas Gift Deerskin Map to Governor of Charles Town 1707 The English Empire becomes the British Empire 1731 Georgian town of Savannah 1739 Stono Rebellion Fails, Extending Slavery 1739 George Whitefield begins tour of New England. 1754 French and Indian War (7 Years War) Begins 1767 Spain colonizes Alta, California 1768 Cook begins exploring the South Pacific. 1774 The American Revolution begins.