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