Latin America Years

Aztecs

1300-1521

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna seizes power 6 times

1832-1855

Atahualpa’s reign

1532-1533

Augustin de Iturbide’s first reign as emperor in Mexico

1822-1823

Bartolome de las Casas lives

1484-1566

Benito Juarez writes new reform laws, successfully separating Church and State

1859

Banana Republics gain traction

1950s - 1980s (Cold War)

Columbian Exchange occurs

1492

Good Neighbor Policy

1933-1938

Encomienda system is abolished

1542

Haciendas are popular

1600s-1800s

Hernando Cortes takes over Aztec Empire

1521

Incas rule

1440-1530

Jose de San Martin lives

1778-1850

Jose Morelos replaces Father Miguel Hidalgo

1811-1815

Ferdinand Magellan begins his expedition

1519

Mayans

250-900

Mercantilism starts growing in popularity in Europe

1500s

First missionaries are built

1541

Moctezuma reign

1450-1469

Monroe Doctrine years

1823-1833

Francisco Pizarro conquers Incas

1531

Simon Bolivar lives

1783-1830

Victor Nunez de Balboa discovers Pacific Ocean

1513

Treaty of Tordesillas is formed

1494

**New Spain** (one of Spain’s two original colonies in America, this is the one in C. America) established (w/ viceroy)

1535

Spain’s Peru Colony is established (w/ viceroy)

1542

Dollar Diplomacy

early 1900s

Panama Canal Opens

1914

Spanish-American War

1898

Mexican American War

1846-1848