1540s

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Events

  • Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Hernando de Soto perform extensive expeditions throughout North America.
  • 1540-1542: Gonzalo Pizarro expedition led by Gonzalo Pizarro, first crossing of South America from Peru to the Amazon delta by the whites.
  • 1543: Justification of the heliocentric world view caused by the pressure of the book De revolutionibus orbium Coelestium, the astronomical and mathematical principal work of Nicolaus Copernicus.
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