Atlantic slave trade
1500–1888 · Event
Trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans; ~12 million people transported from c. 1500 to 1888; defines economy of Americas, Africa, Europe.
On these timelines: Master, Slavery & Abolition, Economic History, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire
Around 1500
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
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