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Jul 25, 1109
Affonso I
He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors. -
Mar 4, 1394
Henry The Navigator
He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents. -
Jan 1, 1415
Portugal had expanded into Muslim North Africa
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Jan 1, 1450
John Cabot
an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings visits to Vinland in the eleventh century -
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. -
Jan 1, 1453
Afonso de Albuquerque
an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean. -
Mar 9, 1454
Amerigo Vespuci
an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages -
Jan 1, 1460
Prince Henry
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Jan 1, 1471
Francisco Pizarro and the Incans
a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire. -
Jan 1, 1485
Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so. -
Dec 31, 1491
Jacques Cartier
a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France -
Sep 12, 1494
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.[ -
Jan 1, 1507
1507
A german cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Vespucci's descriptionsof his voyage to publish a map of the region which he labeled it America. -
Jan 1, 1510
1510
The Portugese seized the island of Goa. -
Sep 20, 1519
Sept. 20 1519
Ferdinand set out from Spainwith 5 ships to find a way reach the Pacific -
Dec 29, 1519
Vasco de Game
a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. -
Oct 5, 1552
Matteo Ricci
was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th–18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God. -
Jul 31, 1566
Bartolome de Las Casas
a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. -
1599
A dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence. -
1603
A groupof wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company -
1641
The Dutch captured Malacca from the Portugese and opened tade with China. -
Lord Macartney
He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets".
