Americas

North America and South America taken together as a single continent or landmass

13 dated entries naming Americas, drawn from 12 separate years between 150 CE and 2015 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

JSON Wikipedia article Wikidata Q828

2nd century

150The Great Pyramid of the Sun is constructed in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.source

6th century

530Brendan, Irish abbot, allegedly climbs to the top of Mount Brandon to look for the Americas (approximate date).source

10th century

986Bjarni Herjólfsson, a Norse-Icelandic merchant captain and explorer, becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to discover the mainland of the Americas.source

16th century

1507April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal Cosmography") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.source
1512February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451)source
1551May 12 – The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima in the Viceroyalty of Peru, being the first officially established university in the Americas.source
1551September 21 – The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City (Mexico), being the second officially established university in the Americas.source
1577December 13 – Francis Drake leaves Plymouth, England, aboard the Pelican, with four other ships and 164 men, on an expedition against the Spanish, along the Pacific coast of the Americas, which will become his circumnavigation.source

17th century

1633Mission San Luis de Apalachee is built in the New World by two Spanish friars.source
1663Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), which becomes the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible, from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages.source

19th century

1820Construction work is completed on the Citadelle Laferrière in Haiti, the largest fortification in the Americas, built on the orders of Henri Christophe to defend the country against potential French reoccupation.source

20th century

1966In or about this year, one person returning to Haiti from the Congo is thought to have first brought HIV to the Americas.source

21st century

2015April 29 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.source