Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (TRIH ep 543)
1560 · Resource
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!” At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one story in particular gripped the imagination of European colonialists: El Dorado, a legendary city of gold, hidden in the very heart of the South American Rainforests. But no kingdom sought this prize more furiously than the mighty Spanish Empire.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1560
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)