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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Time span for age of exploration
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Jan 1, 1415
Prince Henry the Navigator
He led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal. He also created a school -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
He rounded the southern tip of Africa. -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus
He landed in the Caribbean islands that are now called the West Indies. -
Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
Portugal had the same rights agreed to in the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed btwn the 2 countries in 1494 -
Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot
found rich fishing grounds off Newfoundland, which he claimed for England. -
Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama
He followed in Dias footsteps, leading four ships around the Cape of Good Hope. After a ten-month voyage, da Gama reached the great spice port of Calicut on the west coast of India. -
Jan 1, 1499
Amerigo Vespuci
America was named after him. Made a voyage to Brazil -
Jan 1, 1505
Affonso I
he called on the Portuguese to develop Kongo as a modern Christian state. -
Jan 1, 1507
Martin Waldseemuller
In 1507, a German cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Vespucci’s descriptions of his voyage to publish a map of the region, which he labeled “America.” -
Jan 1, 1510
Afonso de Albuquerque
Under his control the Portugal seized the island of Goa off the coast of India making it their major military and commercial base. -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
he landed on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons .He began inland trek toward Tenochtitlàn, the capital of the Aztec empire. WIth the help of a guide he fought Moctezuma and captured their capital. -
Nov 1, 1520
Magellan
In November 1520 Magellan’s ships entered a bay at the southern tip of South America -
Jan 1, 1530
land grants
Portugal began to issue grants of land to portuguese nobles who agreed to develop the land and share profits with the crown. -
Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro and the Incans
Fought in a civil war. Aided by Indian allies he captured Atahualpa and slaughtered thousands of Inca. -
Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier
began exploring the coastline of eastern Canada, eventually discovering the St. Lawrence River. -
Jan 1, 1534
Portugese reaching Japan
the portuguese reached Japan, followed by the Spanish, Dutch and English -
Jan 1, 1542
Bartolome de Las Casas
Casas detailed the horrors that spanish rule had brought to Native Americans and pleaded with the king to end the abuse -
Jan 1, 1542
Laws of Indies
Spain passed the New Laws of the Indies. -
Jan 1, 1551
University of Mexico
The University of Mexico was established as early as 1551. Broad avenues and public monuments symbolized European power and wealth. To meet the churches need for educated priests the colonies built universities -
Matteo Ricci
Jesuit Priest that made a particularly strong influence on the Chinese -
Francis I of France
succeeded in bringing back Protestant convertsrenewed piety found expression in literature and art -
Settlement of colonies
France, the Netherlands, England, and Sweden joined Spain in settling North America. -
Jsmestown, Virgina
The English built their first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia i -
Quebec Settlement
The first permanent French settlement was established in 1608, when Samuel de Champlain established a colony in Quebec -
Pilgrims
another group of English settlers landed at Plymouth, MassachusettsPilgrims, or English Protestants who rejected the Church -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
a new wave of English Protestant immigrants arrived to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony -
Mayflower Compact
they signed the Mayflower compact in which they set out guidelines for governing their North American colony -
Tokugawa
By 1638 the Tokugawa's had turned against European traders. Japan barred all european merchants and forbade Japanese to travel abroad -
Manchu sezing Bejiing
victorious Manchu armies seized Beijing and made it their capital.The Manchus set up a new dynasty called the Qing. -
Kangzi
extended chinese power into central asia and promoted chinese culture -
The Boers
Dutch farmers, called Boers settled around Cape Town.Over time they ousted enslaved or killed the people who lived there.a Calvinist belief that they were the elect or chosen of God. -
French and Indian War
Britain and France emerged as powerful rivals. In North America, war between the two powers erupted, -
Seven Years war
The French and India war turned into a worldwide struggle known as the Seven Years’ War, which spread to Europe in 1756 and then to India and Africa -
British attack on Quebec
British troops launched an attack on Quebec, the capital of New France. British soldiers and colonial troops launched a series of campaigns against the French in Canada and on the Ohio frontier. France won several victories -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris officially ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America. France was forced to cede the Louisiana Territory over to Spain. France regained the rich sugar-producing islands in the Caribbean and the slave-trading outposts in Africa that the British had seized during the war -
Lord Macartney
arrived in china at the head of Britain diplomatic mission. He brought samples of British made goods to show the chinese who looked on the goods as rather crude products, thought they were gifts offered as tribute to an emperor -
Korea
before the country was fully recovered he Manchus invaded Korea. Korea became a tributary state
