NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Timeline of United States history (Before 1600)

1492-Christopher Columbus lands on one of the Bahamas Islands, "discovering" the New World (for 15th century Europe)
1494-Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between Spain and Portugal
1497-John Cabot is the first European since the Vikings to reach the North American mainland, which he claims for England

1500s

1513-Vasco N��ez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees Pacific Ocean
1513-Juan Ponce de Le�n claims Florida for Spain
1519-Hern�n Cort�s defeats Tlaxcala, a small state neighboring the Aztec empire
1520s-Spanish begin conquest of Maya civilization
1521-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
1524-Giovanni da Verrazano, working for France, explores coastline from present-day North Carolina to Maine
1542-Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River, strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North America
1570s-Iroquois League founded
1587-Sir Walter Raleigh founds Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World, in the Virginia territory
1590-Roanoke found deserted

Beginnings to 1599
History of the United States

1600-1699

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	Abraham Lincoln is elected the sixteenth President of the United States, and begins to work to keep the country together.
	Southern states break away from the United States, angering northerners and causing the Civil War.
	The Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in southern states to punish the south for trying to break away from the country.

Georgia State Flag (1614 words)
	In 1879 the General Assembly of Georgia passed an act changing the flag to a vertical band of blue next to the staff occupying one third of the flag; the remainder was divided into three horizontal bands with the upper and lower in red and the middle in white.
	The orignal state flag was designed by John Sammons Bell, an Atlanta attorney, and was adopted as the official flag of Georgia in 1956.
	History does not record who made the first Georgia state flag, when it was made, what it looked like, or who authorized its creation.

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