Columbian Exchange
1492–1700 · Event
Transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people between the Old and New Worlds following 1492; devastated Amerindian populations through smallpox and other pathogens.
On these timelines: Age of Exploration, Latin America, Master, Spain
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
Around 1492
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)