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CHRONOLOGY
Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Argentina
50,000
b
.
c
.
Asian hunters cross Bering Straits
12,000
Migrating hunting bands arrive in Argentina
200
b
.
c
.
Guaraní begin migration from Brazil to Paraguay
a
.
d
. 1492
Christopher Columbus arrives in Caribbean Islands;
approximately 900,000 native Americans
inhabit
Argentina
1493
Topa Inca integrates Diaguita of northwest Argentina
into Inca Empire; native groups of the plains remain
independent
1516
Juan Díaz de Solís explores the Río de la Plata estuary
1520
Ferdinand Magellan sails through straits now bearing
his name, on first circumnavigation of the Earth
1528
Sebastian Cabot explores the Paraná River and is killed
by Charrúa warriors
1532
Francisco Pizarro conquers Peru
1536
Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires
1537
Members of Mendoza expedition establish settlement at
Asunción in present-day Paraguay
1541
Buenos Aires
is abandoned due
to
indigenous
hostilities
1545
Guaraní rebellion against Spaniards is repressed
1553
Santiago del Estero is founded
1560
Extensive silver production begins at Potosí (pres-
ent-day Bolivia); illegal silver trade commences in
Argentina
1562
Spanish settlements at Mendoza and San Juan are
founded
