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Oct 5, 1420
prence henry the navigator
Henry sent many sailing expeditions down Africa's west coast, but did not go on them himself -
Oct 5, 1453
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuqueque was an exceedingly energetic commander of Portuguese India, who greatly expanded Western influence in the area. -
Oct 5, 1460
vasco da gama
was a Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East. -
Oct 5, 1476
John cabbot
Italian navigator and discoverer of North America, was born in Genoa, but in 1461 went to live in Venice, of which he became a naturalized citizen in 1476. -
Oct 5, 1488
bartolomeu dias
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so. -
Oct 5, 1492
Christopher Columbus
was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India to trade for spices -
Oct 5, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci
While in Spain, Amerigo Vespucci began working on ships and ultimately went on his first expedition as a navigator in 1499. -
Oct 5, 1515
Francis I of France
was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch. -
Oct 5, 1527
Francisco Pizarro and the Incans
Another expansion took place in 1529 when Spanish soldiers, looking for fame and wealth, pushed from Mexico City northwest to what they called Nueva Galacia. -
Oct 5, 1530
Bartolome de Las Casas
he Returned to Spain and obtained a royal decree prohibiting the enforcement of slavery in Peru which he delivered personally. -
Oct 5, 1534
Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés left Spain at the age of nineteen after a brief period studying law and a fortuitous escape from a jealous husband. -
Oct 5, 1534
Jacques Cartier
Not much is known of his life before 1534, when he departed on his first voyage. He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him. -
Oct 5, 1570
Afonso I
Afonso started building churches and made Catholicism the state religion, under the aegis of his son Henrique, an ordained Catholic bishop. -
Oct 5, 1571
Matteo Ricci
Ricci made his classical studies in his native town, studied law at Rome for two years, and on 15 Aug., 1571, entered the Society of Jesus at the Roman College, where he made his novitiate, and philosophical and theological studies. -
Lord Macartney
The first British Embassy to China, for the promotion of science and to secure a more favorable trade agreement and diplomatic ties, set sail from Spithead on 26 September 1792. -
THe Boers
Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal
