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1 Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America (approximate date).
1498 Christopher Columbus
lands on the South American continent.
1504 Voyage of Juan de la Cosa to South America.
1520 After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan
reach the Pacific Ocean
, becoming the first Europe
ans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan).
1717 Spain
unites its South American colonies as New Grenada
1739 The British capture the South American silver exporting town of Porto Bello from the Spanish.
1810 The ''Tonquin'' sets sail from New York Harbor
with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor
's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River
and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
1849 Regular steamboat
service from the west to the east coast of the United States
begins with the arrival of the SS ''California'' in San Francisco Bay
. The ''California'' left New York Harbor
on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San Francisco, California
after the 4 month 21 day journey.
1947 Thor Heyerdahl
's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean
proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
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