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Jan 1, 1100
Compass was invented
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Commercial Revolution
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias sails around the Cape of Good Hope
Sails Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa and finds the route to the Indian Ocean. -
Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus left Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus' Fleet Lands at San Salvador
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Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Dec 31, 1504
Columbus Makes Three More Voyages to the "Indies"
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Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504
Amerigo Vespucci crosses the Atlantic several times
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama lands in India
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Jan 1, 1500
Perdo Cabral set sail westward for India
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Jan 1, 1510
Porteguese conquered part of the southwest coast of India
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing
The crossing was an overland crossinf of the Isthmus of Panama -
Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain
Intentions to cross the Atlantic to South America... found himself in the Pacific OCean which he himself had named. -
Jan 1, 1580
Spain annexed Portugal
