1509. Francisco Pizarro reaches Darien, ii. 506. Ojeda at Cartagena, where Cosa is killed, ii. 191. 1510. Diego Alvarez at Bahia, viii. 390. Dominican monks reach Hispaniola, ii. 305. 1510-12. The Lenox globe, ii. 170; iii. 212. 1511. Diego Velasquez settles Cuba, ii. 201. The Portuguese reach the Moluccas by way of the Cape of Good Hope, ii. 441. Ferdinand Columbus maintains the theory of a westerly passage below South America, viii. 375 The American map in the Ptolemy (Sylvanus) of this year shows the first instance of type inscription in a woodcut, ii. 122; viii. 380. The Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro bay, ii. 596. Peter Martyr's earliest publication, i. p. xx ; | and map, ii. 109, 232, 283. 1511-17. The Spaniards at Darien receive reports of the empire of the Incas, ii. 505. 1512. Sebastian Cabot entered the service of Spain, iii. 4. Ponce de Leon empowered to settle Bimini, ii. 232. Stobnicza's map, ii. 116; iii, 10, 13. 1512-16. The so-called Da Vinci map, ii. 124, 125, 126. 1513. Ptolemy map and that known as the "Admiral's map" (Columbus's), ii. III; iv. 34. Oviedo at Panamá, ii. 563. Apr. 2. Ponce de Leon discovered and named Florida, ii. 233, 283. Sept 25 Balboa's discovery of the Pacific, ii. 176; viii. 375. Map of the Pacific, 440. 1514. Cross-staff first described, ii. 98. Pedrárias at Antigua, ii. 197. 1514-19. The so-called Tross Gores (map in gores), ii. 120; iii. 214. 1514-20. Portuguese Portolano of the N. American coast, iii. 56. 1515. Biru visited, ii. 505. Reisch's Margarita philosophica and its map, ii. 113, 114. Schöner's or Frankfort globe, ii. 118, 173; iii. 214, 215; viii. 377. 1515, or later. The Nordenskjöld gores (map), viii. 379: 1516. The earliest life of Columbus in a note to the Giustiniani Psalter, ii. 64. Las Casas made "Universal Protector of the Indians," ii. 307. Peter Martyr's account of Cabot, iii. 15. January. Solis in the La Plata River, iii. 5; viii. 375. January 23. Ferdinand of Spain dies, ii. | Map of the Gulf of Mexico, ii. 218. Schöner's globe, ii. 119; iii. 214. Bordone's maps, viii. 382. De Ayllon sends an expedition to the Atlantic coast of Florida, ii. 238, 285. June 30. Montezuma dies, ii. 368. July 7. Cortés' fight at Otumba, ii. 370. Oct. 21. Magellan entered Magellan's Straits, ii. 604; and Nov. 28 reached the Pacific, ii. 608. The Portuguese suspected to have reached America from the Moluccas, ii. 441. Oct. 30. Cortés' second letter, ii. 403. 1521. Giovanni da Verrazano as a French corsair named Juan Florin, iv. 5. Alleged exploration on the northeastern coasts of America by Alvarez Fagundes, iv. 37. March. Magellan at the Ladrones, ii. 611. Ponce de Leon again visits Florida, ii. 234. Panamá made a city, ii. 199. Aug. Mexico City captured, ii. 378. 1522. Pascoal de Andagoya's expedition south from Darien, ii. 506; and learns of an Inca empire, ii. 199. The maps in Ptolemy edited by Lorenz Friess, ii. 173, 175, 218, 598. Map of Nuño Garcia de Toreno, viii. 383. Sept. 6. Del Cano returns in the "Victoria," viii. 382. 1523, Dec. Cortés sends Alvarado to Guatemala, ii. 383. Garay's expedition to Amichel, ii. 238, 284; and to Panuco, ii. 503. 1523, etc. Norman voyages to Brazil, viii. 384. 1524. Apian published his first cosmographical treatise, ii. 182. Jan. Olid sent to Honduras, ii. 383. Oct. Cortés himself goes to Honduras, ii. 384. Cortés' fourth letter, ii. 411. May. Congress at Badajos, iii. 4; iv. 10; viii. 383. Nov. 14. 507. Pizarro sails from Panama, ii. Verrazano supposed the earliest to sail Spaniards of the Pueblo Indians, ii. 473. Guzman's expedition to New Galicia, ii. directly west in crossing the Atlantic, iii. 172; | 1530. The earliest knowledge acquired by the in seeking a way to Cathay, iv. 6, 17. 1524-25. Gomez explores the eastern coasts of the United States, ii. 241; iv. 10, 29, 413, 414. 1524-40. L'Cuy globe, iii. 214. 1525. Map of Lorenz Friess (Frisius), ii. 126, 127. Loyasa on the South American coasts, and one of his vessels, commanded by Francis de Hoces, discovers Cape Horn, but the discovery was kept secret, viii. 384. Nov. Huayna Ccapac, Peruvian Inca, dies, i. 231. 1526. The monk Franciscus' map, ii. 431. Oviedo publishes his Sumario, ii. 343, 345. Nicholas Don on the Newfoundland coast, iv. 62. Sebastian Cabot reaches the La Plata River, iii. 4; viii. 384. De Ayllon himself on the coast; reaches Chesapeake Bay, ii. 241, 285; iv. 414. May. Cortés returns to Mexico, ii. 385. Sept. 3. Cortés' fifth letter, ii. 411. 1527. Las Casas begins work on his Historia, ii. 339. Glareanus opens the discussion about the ancients' knowledge of America, i. 40; ii. 25. Narvaez's expedition to the upper Gulf of Mexico coast, ii. 242, 286. Exploring fleet on the Pacific dispatched by Cortés, ii. 441. 62. Guzman at Pánuco, ii. 386. Conquest of Yucatan begun, ii. 429. Rut on the Newfoundland coast, iv. 64. 503. 60. William Hawkins on the Brazil coast, iii. Alfinger's search for Eldorado, ii. 579. The Brazilian coast first permanently occupied, viii. 350. June 20. tugal, viii. 383. The Moluccas confirmed to Por Peter Martyr's Eight Decades, iii. 18. The Sloan MS. map makes America one with Asia, ii. 432. Alonso de Santa Cruz's variation chart, the earliest known, ii. 100. 1530-40. Map at Turin, iv. 38. 1531. Papal supremacy denied in England, iii. 236. Diego Ordaz's search for Eldorado, ii. 579. Jan. 1. De Sousa alleged to have discovered the bay of Rio de Janeiro, and to have named it from the day, viii. 390. De Sousa has a captaincy on the Brazil coast, viii. 390. Map of Orontius Finæus, ii. 184, 431; iii. 11; viii. 387. Dec. 28. Pizarro again sails from Panamá for Peru, ii. 514. 1532. Cartagena founded, viii. 292. Simon Grynæus' Novis Orbis, i. p. xxiv. Sebastian Münster's earliest map of America, i. p. xxv; ii. 121; iii. 199, 201. Ziegler's map of Schondia shows Greenland connected with Europe, ii. 434. May. Mendoza sails up the Pacific coast for Cortés, ii. 393. May 18. Pizarro advances from Tumbez, ii. 514. Nov. 15. Pizarro enters Coxamarca, ii. 516. Supposed date of the Maiolo or Maggiolo 1532-40. Map from Kunstmann, iv. 46. map, ii. 219; iv. 27, 38, 39, 67. Thorne's map, iii. 17. The so-called Ferd. Columbus map said to be the work of Garcia de Toreno, ii. 43, 220. La Plata, river, first so named, viii. 375. 1528. Latimer and others meet at Cambridge, Eng., iii. 231. The first English sea manual, iii. 206. Alonso de Chaves, royal cosmographer of Spain, iv. 81. 63. The Baron de Léry at the Isle of Sable, iv. Pizarro goes to Spain, ii. 512. Cortés in Spain, made Marques del Valle de Oajaca, ii. 388. Coppo's map, ii. 127. Oct. 30. Cabeza de Vaca crosses the mouth of the Mississippi, ii. 292. 1529. Treaty of Saragossa gives the Moluccas to Portugal, ii. 441; viii. 383. Hieronimo da Verrazano's map, iii. 194; iv. 18, 25, 26, 27, 37. Diego Ribero's map, ii. 221, 242; iii. 16; iv. 30, 38, 413; viii. 386; first shows the name Peru," ii. 505. Norumbega or its representative begins to appear on maps, iii. 169. Sahagún arrives in Mexico, ii. 415. Earliest phonetic rendering of the Mexican tongues, i. 156. 1530. Pizarro returns to America, ii. 512. July 15. Cortés reaches Vera Cruz, ii. 391. 1533. First printing in Mexico, ii. 400. Oviedo begins to print his Historia, ii. 343, 345. Guzman's expedition to Sinaloa, ii. 503. Cortés' expedition on the Pacific, ii. 441. Cortés' map of the California peninsula, ii. 1535. Pedro de Valdivia reaches Peru, ii. 528. Mendoza in the La Plata region, which he Cabeza de Vaca reaches Culiacan, after The Peruvians lay siege to Cusco, ii. 524. Sept. Saavedra reaches Valparaiso bay, ii. 525. Chaves' lost chart, iv. 81. B. Agnese's maps, iii. 218; iv. 40. California generally shown in maps as a 1536-46 (?). Map in British Museum, iv. 85, 1537. Quesada conquers New Granada, ii. 580. Asuncion (La Plata) founded, viii. 387. 1538, April 26. Almagro, ii. 527. Hernando Pizarro defeats Belalcazar at Bogotá, ii. 580. Fray Marcos makes a preliminary expedition De Soto's expedition from the Florida coast Franciscans in New Mexico, iv. 263. The "Bloody Statute" in England sent Homem's map, ii. 446. Roberval's attempt to colonize Canada, iv. 1541. Cartier's third voyage to Canada, iv. Coronado's expedition, ii. 292. Santiago de Chili founded, ii. 529. Philip von Huten's search for Eldorado, ii. June. Francisco Pizarro assassinated, ii. 534. 1541-56. Benzoni in the Spanish provinces, ii. 1542, Jan. 26. Sainterre sails to succor Rober- Cabrillo's expedition in the Pacific coast of April. Coronado's army began their return May 21. De Soto dies, ii. 253. Cabeza de Vaca publishes his story, ii. 499. Vaca de Casco in Peru, and defeats the The "New Laws" respecting the Indians John Rotz's Idiography, iii. 195; iv. 82, 83; Ulpius' globe, iii. 214; iv. 19, 42. Its "Nova The English tongue first used in English 1543. Ferrelo on the Pacific coast, ii. 444. Sebastian Cabot's Mappemonde marks John 538. Orellano's abortive attempt to establish Münster's Cosmographia, i. p. xxv. 1545. Pedro de Medina's Arte de Navegar and Loaysa made Archbishop, ii. 537. 1545-52. Valdivia's reports on affairs in Chili, 1546, Jan. 18. Blasco Nuñez defeated by the July. Gonzalo Pizarro enters Lima, ii. 538. Freire's map of the Pacific coast, ii. 448; iv. Henri II. or Dauphin map, made by Desce- 1546-49. The reports of Gasca on Peruvian 1547. Gasca drives Gonzalo Pizarro, ii. 541. 1547. Las Casas finally returns to Spain, ii. | 1555. Richard Eden's Decades, i. p. xxiii; iii. 29, Pastene, having founded a colony in Chili, returns to Callao, ii. 534. Seb. Cabot returns to England, iii. 6. Dec. 2. Cortés dies, ii. 396. Nic. Vallard map, iv. 86, 87; viii. 394. Earliest printing of a book in an Indian 1547-55. Hans Stade in Brazil, viii. 350, 391. Carta Marina of the Ptolemy of this date, April 9. Gasca receives the submission of April 12. Gasca enters Cusco, ii. 542. June 18. Pascual de Andagoya dies at 1549. Brazilian captaincies revoked, and De Pedro de Ursua seeks Eldorado, ii. 582. 1550. Hooper's refusal to wear clerical vest- Ramusio's first volume published, iii. 24. Gastaldi map made; published 1556, iv. 77. Diego Gutierrez' map, iv. 81. 1550-3. Descelier's portolanos, iv. 87. Earliest particularized account of the Portu- Ant. de Mendoza, viceroy of Peru, ii. 542. 1553. Richard Hakluyt born, iii. 189. Gomara's work on the conquest of Peru, ii. 414. Cieza de Leon's Parte primera de la Chro- Earliest English book mainly devoted to Queen Mary crowned, and Soo English re- Seb. Cabot governor of a company to find Nov. Giron's revolt in Peru, ii. 543. The Bollero or Bellero map, iv. 89; viii. 396-7. 200. Olaus Magnus' map, i. 124. Guillaume Le Testu's atlas, iv. 77, 90; viii. 396. Villegagnon at Rio de Janeiro, accompanied 1555-56. Villagra fought the Araucanians in 1556. Thevet's alleged voyage along the North Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete, viceroy of Gastaldi's map in Ramusio, ii. 228; iv. 90, 91. 1557. Oviedo, chronicler of the Indies, dies. Hurtado de Mendoza in Chili, ii. 549. Labazares at Pensacola bay, ii. 256. The Zeni narrative published, i. 73, 114; iii. André Thevet's Les Singularités de la Diego Homem's maps, ii. 229, iv. 78, 90, 1558-80. Bestelli e Forlani's Tavole moderne 1559. A Tunisian map of America, iv. 78. Tristán de Arellano's exped. to Florida, ii. Dominicans among the Mobilians, iv. 263. Audiencia of Charcas, viii. 295. 1560. Spaniards in Northern Georgia, v. 359. The Portuguese destroy the French settle Forlani's map connects America with Asia 1561. Ruscelli's map, iv. 92; viii. 398. Polo de Ondegardo's Relaciones about Peru, Francisco de Villagra in Chili as governor, Villafañe at Port Royal harbor (Carolina), Lope de Aguirre on the Amazon, ii. 582. 1562. The French under Ribault occupy Port John Hawkins at Hispaniola, iii. 60. Diego Gutierro's map, iv. 90, 92; viii. 399. 1563. Laudonnière at Fort Caroline, St. John Rodrigo de Quiroga governor of Chili, ii. 551. Martin Cortés in Mexico, viii. 194. Galvano's Tratado published, iii. 32. 1564. Lope Garcia de Castro governor of Peru, ii. 551. 1564. The Conde de Nieva, viceroy of Peru, killed, ii. 547. Spain permanently occupies the Philippines, ii. 454, 1565. Royal Audiencia in Chile, ii. 551. John Hawkins in the West Indies selling negroes, and on the Florida coast, iii. 60. Menendez attacks the French settlements, ii. 263, 271, 292. St. Augustine founded by Menendez, ii. 265, 267. Monardes' Dos Libros, i. p. xxix. Benzoni's account of the Spanish provinces published, ii. 347. B. Agnese's atlas, iv. 90. 1566. Martin de Proveda's search for Eldorado, ii. 585. Juan Pardo's exped. to Florida, ii. 504. Zaltieri's map is thought to be the earliest engraved one to show the Straits of Anian, ii. 449, 451; iv. 93. 1566-73. Spaniards in the Chesapeake, iii. 167. 1567. John Hawkins's third voyage to the West Indies, iii. 63. Dominic de Gourgues attacks the Spaniards in Florida, ii. 280, 297. The Solomon Islands discovered from Peru, ii. 552. Jesuits reach Peru, ii. 552. Second Council of Lima, ii. 552. Jan. 20. The Portuguese finally possess Rio de Janeiro and name it San Sebastian, viii. 351, 394. Olaus Magnus' map, i. 125. 1568. Audiencia at Santiago, viii. 295. Silva and De Cerpa in the Eldorado region, ii. 586. Hawkins at Vera Cruz, viii. 195. Francisco Cano's exped: to New Mexico, ii. 504. Adventures of Ingram, Hortop, etc., through the present United States, iii. 170, 186. Bernal Diaz begins his Historia, ii. 414. 1569. Francisco de Toledo governor of Peru, ii. 552. Juan de Orozco's exped. to New Galicia, ii. 504. Mercator's great map, ii. 449. 452, 470; iv. 78, 94, 364-373; viii. 398; and his projection. 1569-89. Ercilla's versified account of the Araucanian war, ii. 571. 1570. Earliest Norse maps of Vinland, i. 129. The original edition of Ortelius' Theatrum published, ii. 93; iii. 34; iv. 94, 95, 369; viii. 398; and his list of accessible maps show how jealously the Spanish government had kept out of sight their American discoveries, ii. 471. Francis Drake in the West Indies, iii. 64. Spaniards in the Chesapeake, ii. 282. Supposed date of Forlani's map of South America, viii. 400. The island of Juan Fernandez discovered, viii. 407. 1571. Ferdinand Columbus's Life of Columbus published, ii. 62, 64, 65, 89. Inquisition established in Mexico, viii. 197. Fernandez's Hist. del Peru published, ii. 569. Tupac Amaru's revolt, ii. 553; viii. 315. Queen Elizabeth denounced as a heretic by the Pope, iii. 223. 1572. Toleration in religion established in Holland, iii. 231. Drake on the Spanish Main, iii. 65; viii. 195; joins with the Cimarrones, viii. 233Porcacchi's L'isole, with its maps, published, ii. 449, 453; iv. 95, 96. 1573. A ship's log first described, ii. 98. Nov. 19. The first Auto da Fé at Lima, ii. 557 1574. Earliest Auto da Fé in Mexico, viii. 197. Silva's second Eldorado expedition, ii. 586. First Cimarrone war ends, viii. 233. Ruscelli's map, iv. 78. Furlano's map of the North Pacific, iii. 68. 1575. Oxenham in the Pacific, viii. 233. Archbishop Loyasa died at Lima, ii. 557. Thevet's map, iv. 95. Ortelius' map, iv. 78. 1576. Apian's map, iv. 101. Sir H. Gilbert's map, iii. 203. Frobisher's first Arctic expedition, iii. 35, 86, 99. Belleforest's Cosmographie, iii. 36. 1577. Frobisher's second voyage to the north, iii. 87. Richard Willes' ed. of Eden's Martyr, iii. 204. Dec. 13. Drake begins his voyage round the world, iii. 65. 1578. Oct. 28. Francis Drake in the Pacific, iii. 66; viii. 233; sees Cape Horn, viii. 384. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's exped., iii. 126, 171. Frobisher's third voyage to the north, iii. 88. Frobisher's map, iii. 102. De Léry's account of Brazil published, viii. 392. Cellarius's map, iv. 101. The Martines map, ii. 229, 450; iv. 97; viii. 386. 1579. Simon Ferdinando on the Norumbega coast, iii. 171. Drake on the California coast, and called it "New Albion," ii. 453; iii. 72. Sarmiento sent from Peru to the Straits of Magellan, ii. 557. Bishop Landa dies, ii. 429. 1580. John Walker at Norumbega, iii. 171. Dr. John Dee's map, iii. 196; iv. 96, 98. The Dutch first on the Guiana coast, viii. 363. 1580-1600. Japanese map of the West coast of America, ii. 460. 1581. Martin Henriquez viceroy of Peru, ii. 557. Archbishop Toribio reached Lima, ii. 557. Maps by Gemma Frison, iv. IOI. Xahila's Memorial de Tecpan-Atitlan writ ten, ii. 419. Chamuscado's expedition, viii. 254. Robert Browne and followers go to Zealand, iii. 261. 1582. Second Council of Lima, ii. 557Antonio de Berreo's expedition on the Orinoco, ii. 586. A. Millo's map, iv. 101. Popellinière's map in his Trois Mondes, iii. 37; iv. 95; viii. 399. Michael Lok's map, iii. 40; iv. 44. Richard Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, i. p. xxix; iii. 37, 189, 204; iv. 43. 1582-84. Ant. de Espejo's expedition to New Mexico, ii. 504. 1583. Sotomayor governor of Chili, ii. 561. 1 |