Timeline (The New Holy Land)

15th Century

 * 1492 Columbus rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, goes to Rhodes and asks for ships and funds for his expedition. After much consideration, three ships and little provision is given to him.
 * 1493 Columbus returns, stopping in Cadiz, Malta and then Rhodes, spreading news of these new lands. He is sent on a second voyage the same year. Pierre d'Aubusson claims to have had a vision of Jesus telling him to spread the word of God in the west.
 * 1494 Pope Alexander IV publishes the Treaty of Civitavecchia (Treaty of Tordesillas OTL) allocating the newly discovered Indian islands to the Knights Hospitaller and the eastern route to India and the spice islands to Portugal, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands (as in OTL).
 * 1499 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ignore the Treaty of Civitavecchia and fund Rodrigo de Bastidas, who had sailed on Columbus' second voyage to explore the western route to the Spice Islands. He discovers the Caribbean coasts of Columbia and Panama.
 * 1502 Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage for the Knights Hospitaller, charts the east coast of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, laying claim to them while unaware of the competing Spanish claim to Panama.
 * 1503 Pierre d'Aubusson dies, the new capital of Ayiti (Haiti) is named Aubusson in his honour.
 * 1509 Juan de Esquivel leads an expedition to Jamaica.
 * 1511 Giovanni de Noli leads an expedition to Cuba and founds New Jerusalem, the later capital.
 * 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, in the employ of Spain and having sailed on Bastidas' voyage, reaches the Pacific ocean after trekking over the isthmus of Panama, as in OTL.
 * 1517 further exploration of the coast of Central America brings the Knights Hospitaller into contact with the Aztec empire.
 * 1519 the beginning of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Knights Hospitaller, known as the Last Crusade by some.
 * 1520 Pope Leo X issues another papal bull further defining the Treaty of Civitavecchia, allowing the Spanish southern Santerre eastern of the previous meridian, but the Knights Hospitaller everything west of Panama city, Panama and all islands in the Caribbean.
 * 1522 the fall of Rhodes to the Ottomans, leaving the Hospitallers without an old world base, causing them to relocate, temporarily to Ayiti before moving on to Meshiq, conquered from the Aztecs.