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A Chronology of American History:
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16th Century
1507
Martin Waldseemuller's
Cosmographiae Introductio is the first to call the New
World America.
1513
April 2: Juan Ponce
de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
1519
March: Hernando Cortes
leads an expedition to Mexico.
September. 20: Fernando Magellan
sets sail on the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1526
Summer: Lucas Vazquez
de Ayllon establishes the first European settlement in the present-day
United States at San Migel de Guadalupe on the South Carolina
coast.
1556
September 8: The Spanish
establish the first permanent European colony in what is now the
United States at St. Augustine, Florida.
1565
John Hawkins introduces
smoking of tobacco into England.
1584
Richard Hakluyt's Discourse
Concerning Western Planting argues that New World settlement
would benefit England's economy by providing raw materials and
markets and putting idle workers to work.
1587
The "Lost Colony."
For the second time, English settlers establish a colony on Roanoke
Island, off the coast of North Carolina. When a group of colonists
returns from England with supplies in 1590, it finds no trace
of the settlers; it only finds the word "Croatoan" carved
on a tree.
1598
Juan de Onate begins
Spanish settlement of what is now New Mexico.
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