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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Portugal Expleror's
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Jan 1, 1432
Portuguese navagators discover Azores
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Jan 1, 1441
Portuguese navigators reestablish slave trade
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Jan 1, 1450
Prince Henry establishes a Naval observatory for navagation, astromony, and cartography
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Jan 1, 1450
Invention of the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
Turks overrun Contantinople; shutting off the Silk Road
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Jan 1, 1470
Portuguese explorer's discover Africa's gold coast and the Congo River
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Jan 1, 1487
Bartholomeu Dias touches the Cape of Good Hope
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Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus sets sail
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Jan 1, 1494
The Treaty of Tordesillas makes Spain and Portugal enemies for the alleged purpose of spreading Christianity
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot claims new land
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Jan 1, 1504
Venice proposes a Suez Canal to the Sultan of Turkey
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Jan 1, 1506
Christopher Columbus dies
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Jan 1, 1511
Portugal defeats the Arabs in a major naval battle at the Straits of Sunda
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Jan 1, 1512
England begin contruction of double-deck warships
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Jan 1, 1519
Magellan begins his journey to circumnavigate the world with five ships and 270 men
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Apr 27, 1521
Magellan killed Philipian natives
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Sep 6, 1522
18 of Magellan's crew, and one ship return
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Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier enters the St. Lawrence River
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Jan 1, 1577
Sir Francis Drake sets sail to circumnavigate the globe
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Henry Hudson explores present-day New York and Hudson River