13th Century in North American History - List of Events

List of Events

• 1150–1350: Ancestral Pueblo people are in their Pueblo III Era
• 1200: Construction begins on the Grand Village of the Natchez near Natchez, Mississippi. This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century.
• 1200–1400: Middle Mississippian culture flourishes in the Eastern Woodlands
• 1250: Pensacola culture emerges in Florida
• 1250: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, and other Ancestral Pueblo architectural complexes reach their apex
• The Inuit Thule people have completely displaced the old Dorset culture in Arctic Alaska.
• Pueblo people in the American Southwest evacuate most above-ground pueblos to build spectacular cliff dwellings housing hundreds of people.
• The dominant Ancestral Pueblo begin gradually absorbing the Mongollon culture in the American Southwest.
• Athapaskan-speaking people begin migrating from the prairies of Alberta and Montana toward the American Southwest.
• The Four Corners area of the American Southwest suffered severe droughts late in the century, causing many Pueblos to abandon their cliff dwellings for irrigable settlements along the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico.
• 1300: Cliff Palace is abandoned.