Smallpox decimates the Americas
1520–1600 · Event
European diseases kill an estimated 90% of indigenous populations over the 16th century.
On these timelines: Master, Medicine & Public Health, Pandemics & Plagues, Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Around 1520
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)