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Jan 27, 1469
Portuguese begin exploring Africa
Fernão Gomes rented the rights of African exploration for five years. -
Jan 27, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias rounds tip of Africa
Portugese navigator whose 1487-88 Atlantic voyage around the southern tip of Africa opened sea routes between Europe and Asia -
Jan 27, 1492
Columbus reaches West Indies
Columbus wanted to travel across the world and reached the West Indies in 1492. -
Period: Jan 27, 1492 to
Chapter 13 Timeline
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Jan 27, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas signed
Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian -
Jan 27, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails across Indian Ocean to India
On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon -
Jan 27, 1500
Pedro Cabral lands in South America
He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama's newly opened route around Africa -
Jan 27, 1511
Albuquerque finds Melaka
Portugese invaded the capital. -
Period: Jan 27, 1517 to Jan 27, 1521
Spain rules Mexico
Hernández de Córdoba, to explore the Yucatán peninsula -
Jan 27, 1518
First enslaved Africans taken from Africa to New World
Spanish ship carried the first enslaved Africans from Arica to America. -
Jan 27, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail
Ferdinand set sail to circumnavigate the world -
Jan 27, 1521
Aztecs defeated by Spanish
Hernan Cortes defeated the Aztecs -
Jan 27, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan finishes his voyage
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the world -
Jan 27, 1532
Incas defeated by Spanish conquistadors
Francisco Pizarro led the Spanish to defeat the Incans -
Jan 27, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
Treaty between Charles V and the Lutheran Princes. Churches were splitting in Europe. -
Dutch sail to India
Arrived in India in 1595. -
Period: to
England rules United States
England ruled United States until the Revolutionary War. -
French colonize Canada and Louisiana
Samuel de Champlane founded Quebec -
Dutch establish settlements on North America
Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the so-called northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada. -
England sails to India
English east india trading company ownded the ship -
Period: to
England rules Canada
Canada was under the rule of Europeans until 1867. -
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
Set sail following the Northwest passage. -
English take New Netherland
English seize the colony of New Netherland from the Dutch -
Slavery was abolished
Slavery was abolished in 1865 in the United States.