1st Millennium in North American History - List of Events

List of Events

• 500 BCE–700: Old Bering Sea culture thrives in the western Arctic

• 50 BCE–800: Ipiutak culture thrives in the western Arctic.

• 1: Some central and eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape pottery from the mound builders to their east.

• 100–1000: Weeden Island culture flourishes in coastal Florida. They are known for their extraordinarily well-preserved wood carvings.

• 200: The Adena culture of the Ohio River valley evolves into the Hopewellian exchange.

• 200–800: Late Eastern Woodlands cultures flourish in the Eastern North America.

• 200–1450: Hohokam cultures flourish in Arizona and north Mexico

• 400: Cultivation of maize (corn) begins in the American South and soon reaches the Northeast. Originally domesticated in Mesoamerica, maize transforms the Eastern Agricultural Complex.

• 400: Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest weave extraordinarily long nets for trapping small animals and make yucca fibers into large sacks and bags.

• 500: Late Basketmaker II Era phase of Ancestral Pueblo culture diminishes in the American Southwest.

• 700: Basketmaker III Era of the American Southwest evolve into the early Pueblo culture.

• 755±65—890±65: likely dates of the Blythe Geoglyphs being sculpted by ancestral Quechan and Mojave peoples in the Colorado Desert, California

• 700s and 800s: Ancestral Pueblo people of the American Southwest or Oasisamerica transition from pit houses to multi-story adobe and stone apartments called pueblos.

• 800-1500: Mississippian culture spawns powerful chiefdoms of great agricultural Moundbuilders throughout the Eastern woodlands.

• 875: Patayan people learn to farm along the Colorado River valley in western Arizona.

• 900: Earliest event recorded in the Battiste Good (1821–22, Sicangu Lakota) Winter count

• 900: Pueblo culture dominates much of the American Southwest.

• 900: American Southwestern tribes trade with Mexican natives to obtain copper bells cast through the lost-wax technique.

• 1000 (exact date): Vikings from Europe land in Vinland on the coast of Newfoundland..