dipity

Timeline includes 6 events of the Discovery of America, Name, Date, Brief Description, Statement of Signifiance, photo or video.

Created by Pchavez on Jan 27, 2011

Last updated: 01/28/11 at 07:59 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Jan 27, 2011 7:22 AM

• Pilgrims
  1620

  A group that found a second English colony, Plymouth in Massachusetts.

• Atahualpa
  1533

  The Last ruler of the Incan empire in Peru. And Captured and executed by Francisco Pizarro.

• Francisco Pizarro
  Nov 25, 1532

  He had marched a small force into South America into Cajamarca and captures Atahuallpa, the emperor of the Incas. Thousands of Incas were killed and conquered the Incan Empire. Franciso Pizarro said, "There lies Peru with its riches; Here, .... (and thus in South America), calling it Piura|San Miguel de Piura on July of 1532

• Conquistadors
  Nov 18, 1519

  The other spanish explorers who followed Hernando Cortes, Conquistadors means conquerors.The Aztecs would say about the Conquitadors, "They longed & lusted for gold. Their bodies swelled with greed & their hunger was ravenous. They hungered like pigs for that gold. They snatched at the golden emblems, waved them from side to side & examined every inch of them."

• Hernando Cortes
  1519

  Landed on the shores of Mexico. After colonizing several Caribbean islands.Hernando Cortes said, "We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure."

• Christopher Columbus
  Oct 21, 1492

  Christopher Columbus reached the shores of America, and thinking he had successfully reached the East Indies. Columbus Claimed the island for spain, named it san Salvador or "Holy Savior."