Atlantic slave trade
1500–1867* · Event
Forced transport of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, from the early 1500s to the last recorded voyage, to Cuba, in 1867: some 12.5 million people embarked and about 10.7 million survived to land in the Americas.
On these timelines: Master, Slavery & Abolition, Economic History, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire
Around 1500
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)