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1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.
Europeans also left deep genetic marks on the inhabitants of the Americas and most of today's Americans trace their ancestry wholly or partially to Europe. The European percentage of gene background is around 84% in Uruguay; 79% in Argentina; 72% in Cuba; 71% in Brazil; 63% in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Colombia; 57% in Chile; 41% ...
Allied aims with respect to postwar Germany were first laid out at the Yalta Conference, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin signed an agreement stating that they intended to: disarm and disband the German armed forces; break up the German General Staff; remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control German industry ...
5.5.1 Germany. 5.5.2 ... Urnfield culture of central Europe were part of the origin of the ... the first states to set up colonies in America and European ...
Between 1994 and 1998, eight 380,000-year-old wooden javelins between 1.82 and 2.25 m (5.97 and 7.38 ft) in length were eventually unearthed. [4] [5] One of the oldest buildings in the world and one of the oldest pieces of art was found in Bilzingsleben. [6]
Massachusetts Hall, built between 1718 and 1720, the oldest building at Harvard University, the first U.S. university, founded in 1636. Education was primarily the responsibility of families, but numerous religious groups established tax-supported elementary schools, especially the Puritans in New England, so that their children could read the ...
A statue of the Italian explorer John Cabot gazing across Bonavista Bay in eastern Newfoundland World map of Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America). [9] The name America derives from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. [10]
First European city on the Pacific coast of the Americas [8] 1521 San Juan: Puerto Rico United States Oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the contiguous United States or U.S. territories: 1524: Quetzaltenango: Guatemala: Guatemala: 1525 San Salvador: San Salvador Department: El Salvador