![]() 1576: Spanish found León de los Aldama.1570: Failed Spanish settlement on Chesapeake Bay ( Ajacán Mission).The economic model developed in the Netherlands would define colonial policies in the next two centuries. 1568: Dutch revolt against Spain begins.1566–1587: Spanish in South Carolina ( Charlesfort-Santa Elena site).1565: Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida.1565: Spanish slaughter French 'heretics' at Fort Caroline.1564: French Huguenots at Jacksonville, Florida ( Fort Caroline).1562: Failed Huguenot settlement in South Carolina ( Charlesfort-Santa Elena site).1559: Failed Spanish settlement at Pensacola, Florida.1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo reaches the California coast.1541: Failed French settlement at Charlesbourg-Royal ( Quebec City) by Cartier and Roberval.1540: López de Cárdenas reaches the Grand Canyon (the area is ignored for the next 200 years).1541: Spanish found Nueva Ciudad de Mechuacán (Morelia).1540: Coronado travels from Mexico to eastern Kansas.1539: Francisco de Ulloa explores the Baja California peninsula.1539: Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas.Kitts in the Caribbean (destroyed by the Spanish). 1538: Failed Huguenot settlement on St.1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America.1531: Spanish found Puebla de Zaragoza and Santiago de Querétaro.John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St.1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion.1525: Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay and reaches Nova Scotia.1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast.1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador.1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida.1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire.1519: Founding of Panama City by Pedro Arias Dávila.1519: Álvarez de Pineda explores de Gulf Coast of the United States.1519: Founding of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ( Veracruz).1517: Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula.1513: Núñez de Balboa claims the Pacific Ocean and its shores for Spain.1508: Ponce de León founds Caparra on San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico).1503: Las Tortugas noted by Columbus in passage through the Western Caribbean present-day Cayman Islands.1502: Columbus sails along the mainland coast south of Yucatán, and reaches present-day Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.1501: Corte-Real brothers explore the coast of what is today the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ![]()
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