First transatlantic slave voyage
1519* · Event
The first slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas probably sails around 1519; before then, enslaved Africans reached the Americas by way of Europe.
On these timelines: Master, Slavery & Abolition
Around 1519
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)