Explorer

Age of Exploration

  • LEBANON
    Jan 1, 1400

    LEBANON

    Mamluke Rule from 1282.
  • PORTUGAL - Cadamosto
    Jan 1, 1455

    PORTUGAL - Cadamosto

    Cadamosto reached the mouth of the Gambia River in West Africa.
  • SPAIN - Columbus
    Aug 3, 1492

    SPAIN - Columbus

    Christopher Columbus sets sail for India.
  • SPAIN - Columbus
    Oct 12, 1492

    SPAIN - Columbus

    Columbus reaches San Salvadore.
  • ENGLAND - Cabot
    Jun 24, 1497

    ENGLAND - Cabot

    John Cabot found Newfoundland
  • PORTUGAL - De Gama
    Jul 8, 1497

    PORTUGAL - De Gama

    De Gama set sail to make his way around Cape Good Hope.
  • PORTUGAL - De Gama
    May 21, 1498

    PORTUGAL - De Gama

    De Gama became the first European to set foot on Indian soil.
  • Sep 5, 1500

    PORTUGAL - Gaspar

    Gaspar discovered Greenland.
  • Sep 6, 1500

    PORTUGAL

    Brazil claimed for Portugal.
  • SPAIN - Columbus
    Nov 7, 1503

    SPAIN - Columbus

    Columbus finds Jamaica.
  • SPAIN - Balboa
    Sep 25, 1513

    SPAIN - Balboa

    Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.
  • LEBANON
    Jan 1, 1516

    LEBANON

    Fall of Mamluke rule and beginning of Ottoman rule.
  • SPAIN - Menendez
    Sep 20, 1516

    SPAIN - Menendez

    Menendez attacked and massacred everyone in Fort Caroline.
  • SPAIN - Magellan
    Aug 10, 1519

    SPAIN - Magellan

    Magellan set sail to circumnavigate the world.
  • SPAIN - Cotres
    Nov 8, 1519

    SPAIN - Cotres

    Cortes reaches Tenoichtitlan.
  • SPAIN - Magellan
    Sep 4, 1520

    SPAIN - Magellan

    Pacific Ocean named due to its calm waters.
  • SPAIN - Magellan
    May 7, 1521

    SPAIN - Magellan

    Magellan arrives at Guam.
  • SPAIN - Cortes
    Sep 4, 1521

    SPAIN - Cortes

    Cortes defeats the entire Aztec Nation.
  • SPAIN - Pizzaro
    Aug 1, 1533

    SPAIN - Pizzaro

    Pizzaro defeats the Inca and returns with three times more than Cortes at the Aztec.
  • FRANCE - Cartier
    Sep 6, 1534

    FRANCE - Cartier

    Cartier discovers Montreal and St. Lawrence River.
  • SPAIN - De Soto
    May 30, 1539

    SPAIN - De Soto

    De Soto set sail for the Bahamas to find the Fountain of Youth and lands in Florida.
  • SPAIN - Coronado
    Aug 7, 1540

    SPAIN - Coronado

    Coronado sets out on an Expedition through Mexico to find Cibola, the famed "City of Gold".
  • SPAIN - De Soto
    Sep 4, 1541

    SPAIN - De Soto

    Mississippi River discovered.
  • FRANCE - Champlain

    FRANCE - Champlain

    Champlain settled Montreal.
  • ENGLAND - Hudson

    ENGLAND - Hudson

    Henry Hudson discovered the bay that would become New York Harbor.
  • LEBANON

    Prince Fakhr EdDine returns from exile.
  • NETHERLANDS

    Batuia colonized by the Dutch.
  • NETHERLANDS - Coen

    NETHERLANDS - Coen

    Lothen taken by force.
  • LEBANON

    LEBANON

    Prince Fakhr EdDine defeats Mustafa Pasha at Anjar.
  • LEBANON

    Execution of Prince Fakhr EdDine II at Constantinople.
  • NETHERLANDS - Tasman

    NETHERLANDS - Tasman

    Tasman discovered the shore of Tasmania.
  • NETHERLANDS - Tasman

    NETHERLANDS - Tasman

    Tasman discoveres New Zeland.
  • FRANCE - Joilet

    FRANCE - Joilet

    Lois Joilet discoveres Mississippi River.
  • FRANCE - Cadillac

    Cadillac set sail for Canada
  • FRANCE - Cadillac

    FRANCE - Cadillac

    Cadillac founded Detroit.