Age of exploration

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  • Period: 1341 to

    Age of exploration

  • 1419

    (Portugal) Discovery of Madeira

    Portuguese explorers, led by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, discovered the Madeira islands, expanding Portuguese navigation and trade routes.
  • 1434

    (Portugal) Rounding Cape Bojador

    Gil Eanes, a Portuguese navigator, successfully rounded Cape Bojador off the coast of Africa, breaking the myth of “the end of the world” and opening up further African exploration.
  • 1488

    (Portugal) Bartolomeu Dias rounds the cape of good hope

    Dias became the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, opening the sea route to Asia.
  • 1492

    (Spain) Columbus reaches the Americas

    Christopher Columbus, sailing under the Spanish flag, reached the New World, landing in the Caribbean, marking the beginning of Spanish colonization in the Americas.
  • 1498

    (Portugal) Vasco da Gama reaches India

    Vasco da gama successfully navigated to Calicut, India, solidifying a sea route to the East and initiating an era of Portuguese dominance in the Indian Ocean.
  • 1519

    (Spain) Ferdinand Magellans

    Magellan, under the Spanish crown, began the first circumnavigation of the globe, which would be completed by his crew in 1522.
  • 1519

    (Spain) Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire

    Cortés led the apanis conquest of the Aztec empire in present day Mexico, a pivotal moment in the colonization of the Americas.
  • 1524

    (France) Giovanni da Verrazano explores North America

    Verrazano, Sailing under the French flag, explored the east coast of North America, including what is now New York Harbor.
  • 1533

    (Spain) Francisco Pizarro captures the Inca empire

    Pizarro and his men captured the Inca capital of Cuzco, making the fall of the Inca empire and the establishment of Spanish control in Peru.