Module 1 Timeline

cortes's conquest of Aztecs in mexico

the book First Letter from Mexico to the Spanish Crown by hernan cortes

"new laws" designed to end the enslavement of native americans

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Walter Ralegh sends out 100 people to settle on Roanoke island, later shipping them back to england, first attempt

Second attempt, Ralegh sends out 117 people. White-Gov- Returns with the people missing andcroatoan carved in a tree.

Don Juan Oñate establishes a colony-New Mexico- and in relation for an attack on the colony he destroys acoma pueblo, killing 800, Cap. 500.

the weeping woman by la llorona

The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies by casas

Bernal Diaz del Castillo writes The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1632)

establishment of jamestown

colony of Quebec is established

Santa fe as new capitol of New Mexico

a description of new england by john smith

Rhode island as a place of religious tolerance by roger williams ~ founder of provence

Pequot War

Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Arthur Barlow, The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America

John Cotton preaches to the departing colonists aboard the Arb

Thomas Morton, New English Canaan

The murder in 1634 of Capt. John Stone

Roger Williams helps to convince the Narragansetts, traditional enemies of the Pequots, to join the New Englanders' side of the conflict.

Anne Hutchinson leaves Boston and helps to establish Pocasset, or Portsmouth, Rhode Island.