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The Magna Carta was created after a siege against a terrible King of England named, Bad King John (1199-1216). The Magna Carta was created to establish greater control of the power someone may wield in England. "No Taxation Without Representation -
The Spanish Reconquista was the Spanish Christians attacking the Moors out of southern Spain. It ended mostly after the success of the Spanish and the discovery of the Americas. -
Christopher Columbus and a crew of 90 arrived in the Americas, a very dangerous journey that almost ended in mutiny. -
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Cortez was a Conquistador, sent to Mexico by Spain to Plunder and spread Christianity through the Americas -
The siege on the city of gold, the Capital of the Aztec Empire. A humiliating defeat for the Aztecs, and a rich victory for Cortez. -
New France, French Nouvelle-France, The French Colonies of continental North America.
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Hernato de Soto traveled the Mississippi to discover the city of gold 1539/1540. -
Cornando's journey through America was for the search of the next City of Gold. However as far as he had traveled he did not find a city of gold.
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Written by Bartolomé De Las Casas. Mentions the destruction and genocide of the Native Americans and the Spanish influence that crushed their lifestyle and culture.
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Bartolomé De Las Casas written piece on the guilt he had for the destruction and death the Spanish had caused to the Dominican Native's.
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The predicted time of the Powhatan Confederacy. Powhatan was so powerful that the English thought he was a king. -
One of the first of many English colonies in America!
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Majority of the Eastern Coast were English Colonies, and many were in Native American territory. All in all, not good.
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The Dutch East India Company hired Henry Hudson to search for another Northeast passage to India
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Controlled very little in comparison to the other empires. The Dutch only controlled the Hudson River Valley, and only had temporary forts and very few colonies.
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23 african Slaves, were still capable of gaining their freedoms
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One of the very first and successful Dutch Colonies that soon became New York for the British.
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A very successful and strategically placed fort on the Hudson River for the Dutch settlements in the New Netherlands. Present day Albany.
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The first 30 of the Dutch colonists migrating to America. Very few were actually Dutch.
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14000 Englanders set out for New England, a economic and religious powerhouse in the New World.
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The span of several wars with Great Britian and the Netherlands fighting over American territories and trade.
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First Anglo Dutch war about the passageways that were under English rule. The Dutch sought to trade far cheaper goods under the table.
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Brought together five Native American Tribes in the Great lakes
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This began the moment where colonists began to move westward in Native American lands.
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Post 7 years war resulted in an agreement among the Native Americans, the colonies, and the British. -
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The Stamp Act was used to help England Replenish their coffers after the costly 7 years war. The American colonists did not like this, and rioted. -
A tragic event where British soldiers fired upon a crowd of Boston civilians. -
American Patriots threw British tea into the Boston Harbor -
The First Continental Congress met in the response to the Coercive Acts of 1774, made by the British Empire in their response to the Colonial resistance on taxes -
The first battle of the American Revolution -
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Congress reconvened in Philedelphia with more colonies
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This battle led to the defeat and surrender of Britain, resulting in the evacuation of Britain in the Americas
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The radification of the first 10 Amendments of the United States