Spanish Conquest of the Americas
1519–1697 · Event
The Spanish subjugation of the American mainland empires, from Cortés's landing in Mexico (1519) through the fall of the last Inca stronghold at Vilcabamba (1572) to the conquest of the Itza Maya in 1697.
On these timelines: Latin America, Spain, Pre-Columbian Americas, Master, Conquest of the Aztec Empire
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Around 1519
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- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)