Sandoval commander at La Villa Rica.. Spanish barbarity. Spanish conquerors, character of. St. Mathew Bay, Pizarro at. San Miguel, founding of.. Spaniards suffer crossing the Andes.. Silver, Spanish horses shod with.. Silver bars of Peru.......... Seville, mustering of De Soto's army at. Spaniards at Tallahasse.. Truxillo, birthplace of Pizarro.. 4 Velasquez urged to recall the commission of Cortez... 99 Washita River, De Soto on... Xeres de los Caballeros, the birthplace of Balboa.... 368 4 Xuarez sisters... Xochialco Lake.. Xauxa, Pizarro halts at. Xaquixaguana, in the vale of. Yazoo River, Spaniards at. Zenu, province of..... Zemaco warns cacique of Dobayba. 59 156 304 308 357 24 44 CHRONOLOGY. PERIOD II.-AGE OF CONQUEST. FROM A.D. 1509 TO A.D. 1542. 1509. ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. to the throne of England, April 21. OJEDA sailed from San Domingo to conquer Darien, 1510. BALBOA by a strategy evaded his creditors and sailed with Encisco. 1511. CUBA Conquered by Velasquez. 1512. PONCE DE LEON discovered and named Florida, March 27. BALBOA supplanted Encisco as Governor of Darien. 1513. BALBOA discovered Pacific Ocean,-Called it the South Sea. 1514. BALBOA superseded by Pedrarias. 1517. BALBOA executed by order of Pedrarias. CORDOVA discovered Mexico. 1519. CORTEZ, with a land and naval force, sailed from Cuba to conquer Mexico. 1520. MAGELLAN, a Portuguese, in the service of Spain, explored Straits of Magellan.-He named the Pacific Ocean. NARVAEZ, sent to bring back Cortez, defeated and captured in Mexico. THIS YEAR DE AYALLON led an expedition to Carolina, -called it Chicora. 1521. CORTEZ CONQUERED MONTEZUMA in Mexico-which he called New Spain. Montezuma died of wounds received from his own subjects. 1522. FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION of the globe by Magellan's ship. 1524. VERRAZANO explored the coast from Carolina to New Foundland, -Called it New France. 1528. NARVAEZ attempted to conquer Florida. His fate is unknown. Four survivors reached Mexico. 1530. PIZARRO sailed with fleet and army to conquer Peru. 1531. PIZARRO CONQUERED PERU.-Inca put to death. City of Lima founded. 1534. CARTIER, a Frenchman, under Roberval, explored Gulf and River of St. Lawrence. 1539. DE SOTO WITH TEN VESSELS and 600 men sailed from Havana, Cuba, to conquer Florida, -May 14. 1540. DE SOTO wandering in the wilderness in Florida. 1541. DE SOTO DISCOVERED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER,-May 17. 1542. CABRILLO, a Portuguese in the service of Spain, explored the coast of California. 1542. HERNANDO DE SOTO DIED AT NOON and was buried in the river he discovered. A few of his folLowers under Mascoso afterward found their way back to Cuba,-May 21. |