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May 17, 1400
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry opened the first school of navigation in Europe. He taught portuguese, jewish, arab, spanish, and italian. He built trade routes to get better trade and more power. Even though he was a navigator he never sailed on a single ocean. -
May 17, 1487
Bartolomeu Dias
Dias readied ships getting ready for a long, hard voyage. During his voyage as he was sailing the coast of Africa his ship was blown southward, this made the ship end up in east Africa. He claimed this land and named it Cape of Good Hope. -
Jan 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was a skilled navigator from Genoa, he had the belief, like most people, that the world was flat. He set sail in 1492, they were out at sea for a long time and his crew wanted to go back, but Columbus wouldn't let them, even though they threatened mutiny. He was conviced he found Asia, but he actually found America. -
May 18, 1493
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Spanish was worried that Portigul might try to take Spain from them. They then asked pope Alexander v1 for his help. The pope then drew a amaginary line from the north pole to the south pole called the papel line of demarcation. It was 300 miles long. Spain the non chrisan lands west and Portugal wanted a different way to divide the lands. So they made the treaty of Tordesilla witch was better so portugal could have Brazil. -
May 18, 1495
Amerigo Vespucci
He was a spanish explorer.He is the one America was named after. He was interested in astronomy. He supplied Columbus with food and other needs for his third and his forth voyages. He went on a voyage and was the first European to see Brazil. He was really experienced with sailing. -
May 17, 1497
John Cabot
John cabot was an Italian navigator. English merchants perswaded there king to send him far east. He set sail with a handfull of men and he explored around the coast of Newfoundland. He then sail to explore nova scotia. He became popular then with the english king. -
Jun 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese noble who led a convoy, of four ships down the river of Tagus. After four months at sea his ship made its way to Cape of Good Hope. They thhen sailed the coast of Africa and made their way to an island of a Muslim trading center, this island was Mozambique. When the Muslims found out de Gama was christian they forced the Europeans to leave. At his finally stop in Calicut they tried to kill Gama. They left and sailed to their home land of Lisbon. -
May 18, 1499
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Juan was a Portugeuez explorer. He explored the west coast of North America for Spain. He was the first European explorer to explore the coast of California. And he helped found the city of Oaxaca in Mexico. Then he stoped explorig. -
Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral was a Portugeuse explorer. He discovered Brazil, a South American country. He also sailed to the east of India. He made many great discoveries. -
May 17, 1500
Sir Francis Drake
Francis arranged itailian artizens to work for him. All the french kings became fasinated by italian architecture. Francis hired those artizens to build him castles. He spent alot of his time listining to books, written by Rabelias. He was always with his family witch made him a good king. -
Jan 1, 1513
Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Leon set sail in 1513. He set sail off of Puerto Rico to sail to Florida. -
May 18, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
He crossed the isthmus of Panama, he also became the first European to see the Great South Sea. -
May 18, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan offered the king an eastern route to the Indies, he wanted to make Spain as rich as Portugal. He sailed across the world, a great accomplishment at the time. This also proved Columbus did not find Asia but he found America. -
Jan 1, 1520
Hernan Cortez
Cortez invaded Mexico in about 1519-1520. He destroyed the Native American with guns and disease. His group took a lot of gold and set dail back to Spain. -
May 18, 1523
Giovanni Verranzo
He was a Italian navigator that the French hired. He was sent to find a north west passage. It was a long voyage for him he had to travel alonge the atlantic coast from north carolina to new york. He then made the rout and finished his job. -
May 18, 1527
Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca
He was a Spanish explorer who sailed to the North America. He then claimed some land for Spain. He sailed to Mexico and then on his jurny a series of hurricanes and natives attackes killed 300 of the crew. So they had take rafts and hold 80 people on 2 rafts. He eventuly landed at Gavelston. After he gave it to Spain. -
Jan 1, 1532
Franciso Pizzaro
Pizzaro invaded Peru, within five years he had taken the Inca Empire. He took gold and silver from the Native Americans. He then went to the coast where h built the "City of Kings." -
May 18, 1534
Jacques Cartier
He was anouther french navigator. He was sent to go to the Lawrence River. up to Montreal were they could go to Eastern Canadia. Then that let the french claim eastern part of Canadia. Jacques Cartier then did his part for the French. -
John Davis
John Davis was a English explorer. He was sent to find to northwest passage that leads to Asia. So he went to Greenlalnd to find it and he did. And by doing that he helped England. -
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was a English navigator. The Dutch sent him to discover the passage to the bay that Sir Martin Frobsher discovered. He explored the Hudson River. He also sailed to Albany and Newyork. that voyage let the Dutch claim parts of America. He went on a second voyage and was never seen. again.
