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| 1000 BC | Olmecs - La Venta |
| 800 BC | African contact with Americas |
| 100 AD | Classic Mayan Empire |
| 500 | Nok civilization, West Africa |
| 700 - 1250 | Empire of Ghana |
| 1200 | Aztec Empire |
| 1300 - 1450 | Empire of Mali |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa makes pilgrimage |
| 1450 - 1590 | Empire of Songhai |
| 1492 |
Columbus voyages to the Western Hemisphere accompanied by explorers and servants of African descent, lands at San Salvador, Cuba and Hispaniola. Moorish Empire comes to an end in Spain; Moors expelled from Grenada. Jews expelled from Spain. Askia Muhammad expands borders of the African Empire of Songhai. |
| 1493 | Columbus' second voyage, lands at Puerto Rico and Jamaica. |
| 1497 | English sailor John Cabot reaches North America. |
| 1498 |
Columbus departs Spain on his third voyage to America; he reaches Trinidad and South America. Portuguese sea captain, Vasco da Gama, sails to India. |
| 1500 |
Portuguese sea captain Pedro Cabral reaches Brazil. Portuguese trading vigorously with the people of the Kongo in Africa; they begin exporting slaves. European monarchs heavily finance exploration hoping to become richer. |
| 1502 | Columbus departs Spain on his fourth voyage and reaches Central America. |
| 1505 | Portuguese ships attack key African ports and try to control trade. |
| 1506 | Columbus dies in Valladolld. |
| 1513 | Thirty Africans accompany Balboa to Pacific Ocean. |
| 1518 | Las Casas suggests importing Africans for slave labor. Atlantic Slave Trade begins. |
| 1521 | Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez defeats the Aztec Kingdom. |
| 1526 |
King Alfonso of the Kongo writes a letter to Portuguese King John asking him to put an end to the kidnapping of his people for slavery. Negro slaves in first settlement in United States (a Spanish colony in the area of present-day South Carolina) revolted and fled to the Indians. |
| 1530 | The Inca Kingdom conquers much of South America. |
| 1533 | Pizarro executes Incan King and imposes Spanish rule on Peru. |
| 1538 | Estevanico leads expedition and discovers Arizona and New Mexico. |
| 1600 | The Kongo Kingdom comes to an end due to wars sparked by the Portuguese. |
| 1605 | Quilambo dos Palmares founded, Brazil. |
| 1619 | History of Negro in English America began with landing of "twenty negars" at Jamestown, Virginia. |
| 1621 | Dutch enter the slave trade. |
| 1665 | First Maroon War in Jamaica. |
| 1712 | Slave revolt, New York. |
| 1739 | Slave revolt, Stono, South Carolina. |
| 1741 | Slave conspiracy, New York City. |
| 1754 | Benjamin Banneker builds first clock in U.S. |
| 1767 | Phillis Wheatley publishes poem. |
| 1773 | First Black Baptist Church organized, South Carolina. |
| 1775 | Peter Salem and Salem Poor fight in Battle at Bunker Hill. |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence adopted. |
| 1777 | Vermont abolishes slavery. |
| 1787 |
Free African Society organized, Philadelphia. PA. African Free School organized in New York City. |
| 1794 | Toussaint L'Ouverture leads rebellion in Haiti. |
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