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Period: Nov 29, 1400 to
An Age of Exploration
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Nov 29, 1419
Prince Henry finds a school of navigation
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus arrives in America
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Nov 29, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Spain and Portugal
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Nov 29, 1511
The first enslaved Africans arrive in the Americas
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Nov 29, 1521
Aztec empire conquered by Hernan Cortés
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Nov 29, 1533
Incan empire conquered by Pizarro
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England finds the colony Jamestown (in America)
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Quebec claimed by Samuel de Champlain for France
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King Charles I of England is executed
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Beginning of French and Indian war
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Independence from Britain declared by American colonies
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French Revolution ignited by the Storming of Bastille
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Britain seeks trade with China
