Age of exploration

  • 1341

    Portugal travels away from land

    Portuguese sailors made traveled away from there homeland in search for new land
  • Period: 1341 to

    Age of exploration

  • 1441

    prince henry sails (Portugal)

    Henry returned to Sagres and to launching expeditions in 1441 In that year Nuno Tristam reached Cape Blanco and the following year he arrived at the Bay of Arguim
  • 1446

    Portuguese reaches cape Verde

    Portuguese sailors were exploring the west coast of Africa they reached the off shores of Cape Verde in 1455
  • 1477

    The trading begins (Portugal)

    In 1477 Christopher Columbus sailed on a Portuguese ship from Galway to Lisbon he then found his brother and they began trading together
  • 1492

    Journey complete

    In 1492 Christopher Columbus completed his sails across the Atlantic Ocean and landed in the new ‘world’.