Category: Costa Rica

North America 1503

First Spanish attempts on the Mainland

By the beginning of the 16th century...

North America 1517

Spanish–Mesoamerican contact

Despite almost 25 years of Spanish...

North America 1523

Spanish Consolidation in Mexico

Cortés’ capture of Tenochtitlan...

North America 1840

Centralist Mexico

Mexico was more stable than Central...

North America 1855

Bleeding Kansas

In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act...

North America 1857

Filibuster War

For many US citizens, the...

North America 1907

Great White Fleet

In 1902-03, Britain, Germany and...

South America 1918

South America in the Great War

When World War I broke out in...

South America 1942

Brazil enters World War II

On 7 December 1941, Japan bombed...

North America 1944

America in World War II

Following the Japanese attack on...

South America 1948

Rio Pact

Following the end of World War II,...

North America 1949

North Atlantic Treaty

World War II left the United States...