First transatlantic slave voyage
1526 · Event
Portuguese ships carry the first enslaved Africans directly across the Atlantic to the Americas.
On these timelines: Master, Slavery & Abolition
Around 1526
- The Reformation (1517)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)