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Landmark Americas trade

Panama Viejo

1519 CE – 1671 CE · 152 years

First Spanish settlement on the Pacific Americas, serving as the staging point for the conquest of Peru and the transit of Andean silver across the isthmus.

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Panamá Viejo on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1500 CE)
  2. New Spain (1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Vice-Royalty of New Spain (1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Vice-Royalty of New Granada (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Colombia (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Panama (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Americas

Pachacamac

200 CE – 1533 CE

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Americas

Kuelap

500 CE – 1570 CE

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

1400 CE – 1572 CE

Conflict · Americas

Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars)

1609 CE – 1701 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1519 CE and 1671 CE.

1519 CE Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire 1519 CE Veracruz 1519 CE Havana 1521 CE Cathedral of San Juan Bautista 1521 CE Fall of Tenochtitlán 1529 CE Inca Civil War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing central Asian khanates Polity 1530 CE – 1900 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Venice–Constantinople Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1600 CE Leonardo da Vinci Figure · Florence, Milan, France 1452 CE – 1519 CE Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE
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