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Mar 12, 1488
Diaz reaches tip of Africa
Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Boesmans River, where a padrão was erected before turning back -
Mar 12, 1488
Diaz reaches tip of Africa
Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Boesmans River, where a padrão was erected before turning back -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to Jan 1, 1502
Christopher Columbus makes it to Caribbeans
Columbus and his crew became the first Christians to make landfall in the Americas. Columbus was an Italian born navigator sailing for the Crown of Castile in search of a westward route to Asia, to access the sources of spices and other goods -
May 11, 1498
vasco de gama makes it to india
In 1497, John’s successor, King Manuel I, chose da Gama to lead a Portuguese fleet to India in search of a maritime route from Western Europe to the East. With the help of a local navigator, da Gama was able to cross the Indian Ocean and reach the coast of India at Calicut in May 1498. -
Nov 11, 1509
Pizarro defeats the incas
He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain. -
Nov 11, 1519
Cortes makes it to Mexico
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. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded. -
Period: Nov 11, 1519 to Nov 12, 1522
Magellans trip around the world
Ferdinand Magellan, traveling west from Europe, in 1521, reached a region of Southeast Asia, which he had reached on previous voyages traveling east. Magellan thereby achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. -
Jan 24, 1534
New france is founded
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Nov 11, 1556
1st african slaves arrive to w.hemisphere
In 1526, the Portuguese completed the first transatlantic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. -
Dutch found new netherlands
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French and indian war
. The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies. -
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British 1st permenent settlement
Map of British colonies in North America. England's first permanent settlement in the Americas was founded in 1607 in Jamestown, led by Captain John Smith and managed by the Virginia Company. -
Balboa makes it to the pacific
In 1513, he was the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
