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Conquest and Colonisation timeline
With the end of the siege of Cuzco, and the flight of Manco Inca, the Spanish have full control of Peru
Suleiman I takes Buda (now Budapest), and by 1547 the Turks occupy almost the whole of Hungary
New Laws are passed in Spain, in an attempt to protect the Indians on the encomiendas of Spanish America
Rich seams of silver are discovered at Potosi, in modern Bolivia
La Paz is founded on the trade route between Lima and the newly discovered silver mines at Potosi
The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital
The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China
The Spanish governor general, Legazpi, makes his capital at Manila,and names the surrounding islands the Philippines after Philip II
Venice cedes the island of Cyprus to the Turks, in spite of the Christian victory at Lepanto two years earlier
Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland on behalf of England's queen Elizabeth
Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, is settled by the first English colonists in America – with disastrous results
The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement
Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island
The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families, in the event known as the Flight of the Earls
Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown
John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief
Castaways from an English vessel reach Bermuda, which becomes the first British island in the new world
The American Indian princess Pocahontas is taken hostage by Jamestown colonists in the first Anglo-Powhatan war
Pocahontas is baptized a Christian and marries John Rolfe, one of the Jamestown colonists
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614
Jan Pieterszoon Coen destroys the town of Jakarta, on the coast of Java, and rebuilds it as a Dutch trading centre under the name Batavia
The Pilgrims (or Pilgrim Fathers), a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world
Ten days after their first landfall, at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony
The Pilgrims on the Mayflower select a place for their settlement, and give it the name of Plymouth, their port of departure in England
