LATIN AMERICAN CHRONOLOGY711 AD Morrish incursion into Spain begins 914 Decline of classic Maya culture 1000 Norsemen reach North America 1200s Moors expelled from Portugal. Moors in Spain restricted to the Emirate ofGranada. 1280s Catalan voyages to north-west Africa, and possibily a Genoese visit to the Canaries 1319-50 Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco, the A ztec capital , begins to ri se. 1393 Castilian exploration of Canaries 1410s First caravels built in Iberian peninsula 1415 Portuguese capture of Ceuta in North America 1420s Portuguese settle Madeira 1420s Formation of the Triple Alliance, the basis of Aztec expansion 1427 Defini tive discovery of the Azores by the Portuguese 1440s Start of Inca imperial expansion 1444 Portuguese Cape Verde, westernmost point of Africa 1460s Substantial settlement of Azores by Portugal 1469 Marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon 1479 Treaty of Alcácovas: Castile's rights to the Canaries, and Portugal's to the Azores, Cape Verdes, and Madeira, mutually accepted 1484 Birth of Bartolomé de la Casas in Seville 1487 Dedication of the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan 1488 Bartolomeu Dias rounds southern Africa, for Portugal
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