The European Impact on Latin America Time Line
| 1492 | Columbus claims Cuba, Hispaniola (later Haiti/Dominican Republic), and Bahamas for Spain |
| 1493 | Columbus claims Antigua for Spain |
| 1494 | Spaniards begin rule of Jamaica |
| 1498 | Columbus discovers Venezuela |
| 1500 | Pedro Alvarez Cabral of Portugal arrives on coast of Brazil; by 1540 area develops into large-scale exporter of sugar |
| 1501 | Spanish reach Panama |
| 1510 | Vasco Nuñez de Balboa returns to Panama |
| 1519 | Pedro Arias Dávila founds Panama City; Panama becomes part of viceroyalty of New Granada after 1739 |
| 1519 | Hernán Cortez invades Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) and captures from Aztecs by 1521 |
| 1524 | Spaniards invade Guatemala (heart of the Maya civilization) and Costa Rica; establish Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala |
| 1532 | Francisco Pizarro conquers Incas in Ecuador and Peru; founds Lima in 1535 |
| 1535 | Cortez proclaims viceroyalty of New Spain (includes Mexico and parts of what will eventually become U.S.A.) |
| 1536 | Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires |
| 1536 | Spaniards found city of Valparaiso |
| 1537 | Spaniards enter Paraguay |
| 1538 | Spanish establish Sucré in present-day Bolivia, then called Upper Peru |
| 1538 | |
| 1541 | Spaniards found Santiago, Chile |
| 1544 | Viceroyalty of Peru is established; includes Buenos Aires, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia |
| 1545 | Spanish establish Potosí in present-day Bolivia, then called Upper Peru; this area becomes important for silver mining, later tin |
| 1550 | Spaniards found city of Concepción, Chile |
| 1620s | British annex Barbados, colonize Bahamas |
| 1632 | British settle Antigua |
| 1655 | British take Jamaica from Spain |
| 1697 | Haiti ceded from Spain to France |
| 1763 | British take over Dominica |
| 1776 | Viceroyalty of La Plata is established; includes Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay |
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- The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648
- The Age of Monarchy, 1643-1780
- The Enlightenment, 1543-1789
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- European Revolutions, 1815-1849
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