Pre-Columbian Americas
Explore Pre-Columbian Americas on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Peopling of the Americas (14000 BCE)
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Teotihuacán at its peak (100)
- Inca expansion under Pachacuti (1438)
- Classic Maya civilization (250)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Aztec Triple Alliance formed (1428)
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Mexica founding of Tenochtitlan (1325)
- Machu Picchu built (1450)
- Smallpox arrives in the Americas (1518)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Caral / Norte Chico civilization (3000 BCE)
- Cahokia (1050)
- Chichen Itza built by the Maya (600)
- Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca (1532)
- Maya Classic collapse (800)
- Tikal at its height (600)
- Clovis culture flourishes in North America (11500 BCE)
- Pachacuti (1418)
- Monte Albán founded (500 BCE)
- Norse contact at L'Anse aux Meadows (1000)
- Nazca lines drawn in Peru (500 BCE)
- Hernán Cortés (1485)
- Mississippian culture (800)
- Chaco Canyon at its peak (850)
- Francisco Pizarro (1478)