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Jan 1, 1406
The long-lost map of the world drawn in the second century by the geographer Ptomoley is rediscovered in western Europe. It becomes the best existing map of the world. Pyolomey's map makes Columbus belive Asia can be reached by sailing west from Europe.
The long-lost map of the world drawn in the second century by the geographer Ptomoley is rediscovered in western Europe. It becomes the best existing map of the world. Pyolomey's map makes Columbus belive Asia can be reached by sailing west from Europe. -
Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry the Navigator organizes a School of Navigation and base for explorations on Cape ST. Vincent in Portugal.
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Jan 1, 1431
The first Chinese ships reach Africa
The first Chinese ships reached Africa. -
Jan 1, 1465
Navigation by the stars is greatly improved over earlier eras.
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Jan 1, 1498
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama reaches India by rounding the tip of Africa.
Leading four ships, Vasco de Gama sailed aroun d the bottom of Africa, went up along the east coast, stopped a few times, and sailed until he reached India. -
Jan 1, 1498
Columbus discovers the American continent but believes it is part of Asia.
Christipher Columbus, backed by Spain, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean trying to find a route to India, but instead found the Americas. He didn.'t realize his mistake, and thought he was in Asia. -
Jan 1, 1499
Amerigo Vespucchi explores along the coast of South America and decides it is a new continent and is not part of Asia.
Amerigo Vespucchi explores along the coast of South America and decides it is a new continent and is not part of Asia. The new ccontinents re then later named after him. -
Jan 1, 1512
Portuguese expolerers reach the Spice Islands in the East Indies (The Moluccas)
Portugues explorers reach Molucca, the center for trading in Southeast Asia. -
Jan 1, 1513
Balboa crossesthe Ismus of Panama and discovers the Pacific Ocean. Ponce de Leon lands in Florida.
Balboa was exploring Panama and climbed a mountain. From the mountain he could see the Pacific Ocean. He was the first European to find the Pacific Ocean. Ponce de Leon lands inFlorida. he would eventually become famous for searching for the fountain of youth. -
Jan 1, 1514
Smallpox brought by Europeans begins to wipe ou the native populations in the Americas.
Because Native Americans had no immunities to European diseases, they were wiped out when Europeans brought them to America. Their population dropped by up to 90% -
Jan 1, 1522
The last remaining of Magellan's five ships, with tis crew of seventeen men, returns to Spain, ending the first voyage around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan was sent to circumnavigate the globe. He started withfive ships, and died before the journey ended. His team was the first to ever sail around the world. -
Jan 1, 1540
The Spansh explorer Coronado explorers the American Southwest.
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Jan 1, 1541
The Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto explores the Mississippi River.
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Jan 1, 1542
Giovanni Verrazano explores the coast of North America for France.
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Dutch explorers discover Australia
The Dutch East India Trading Company traded heavily in Indonesia. Eventually, one of thier ships went farther south and found Australia. -
Adam Fellenbaum creates his timeline of the fifteen most important exploration dates.
I choose my events with three priorities. The first priority was events that helped to advance exploration. Since this timeline was about exploration, I felt that this was most important. My second priority was great achievements of exploration. My third priority was effects of exploration. I felt that these three types of events would best define what I think is exploration.
