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  More info about: Pigafetta, Circled the Globe - 1521
  Pigafetta, Circled the Globe - 1521
Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian navigator born in Vicenza. He paid a large sum of money to accompany and assist the Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan and his Spanish...
         
  More info about: Henry VIII of England, Tudor
  Henry VIII of England, Tudor
Henry VIII was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding...
         
  More info about: Ignatius of Loyola, Founder Jesuits
  Ignatius of Loyola, Founder Jesuits
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Ca...
         
  More info about: Jacques Cartier, Discovered Canada
  Jacques Cartier, Discovered Canada
Jacques Cartier was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St-Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named Canada. In 1534...
         
  More info about: Columbus Discovers America
  Columbus Discovers America
After little over a month at sea, Columbus' ships sighted land in what is now known as the Bahamas. The ship's recorder entered in his journal on Thursday, October 11,...
         
  More info about: Oak View Elementary: American Timeline
  Oak View Elementary: American Timeline
We would like you to know and understand what we have learned about America's past, so we decided to make a web page "book" on the Internet. In our book, you'll find our...
         
  More info about: Florida History Timeline
  Florida History Timeline
Explorers and Travelers, Spanish Florida, French Rivalry, British Florida, The Second Spanish Period, Wars of Indian Removal, Reconstruction Era, Business, Agriculture,...
         
  More info about: Tobacco Timeline
  Tobacco Timeline
Columbus Discovers Tobacco; "Certain Dried Leaves" Are Received as Gifts, and Thrown Away...
         
  More info about: Hispanic Heritage
  Hispanic Heritage
Events in Hispanic American history. Welcome to the Hispanic Heritage Month free resource site. Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of activities and information to c...
         
  More info about: Paracelsus, Father of Toxicology
  Paracelsus, Father of Toxicology
Paracelsus was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Paracelsus rejected Gnostic traditions, but kept much of the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythago...
         
  More info about: Francis I, King of France
  Francis I, King of France
Francis I of France, called the Father and Restorer of Letters, was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. Francis I is consider...
         
  More info about: Rabelais, Writer Gargantua & Pantagruel
  Rabelais, Writer Gargantua & Pantagruel
François Rabelais, French writer, priest, humanist, doctor. His fame rests on the five comic novels (one of doubtful authenticity) known collectively as Gargantua and Pan...
         
  More info about: Suleiman I, The Magnificent
  Suleiman I, The Magnificent
Suleiman I, also called Süleyman I and nicknamed the Lawmaker or the Magnificent, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566 and successor to Selim I. He was...
         
  More info about: Jan van Scorel, Dutch Painter
  Jan van Scorel, Dutch Painter
Jan van Scorel was an influential Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands. It is not known whether he began his st...
         
  More info about: De Soto, Discovered the Mississippi River
  De Soto, Discovered the Mississippi River
Starting in 1519, Hernando De Soto served under the Spanish adventurer Francisco Pizarro for 13 years. Young and ambitious, he made his mark as a slave trader and built a...
         
         
 
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