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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1500
European Monarchs Support Exploration and Colonization
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Commercial Revolution
Europeans made major changes to their economies due to new exploration -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope
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Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus left Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus lands on San Salvador
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Jan 1, 1493
Pope Alexander VI Issues an Edict
The edict drew and imaginary line from the north to south through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean -
Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Dec 31, 1504
Columbus makes three more voyages to the "Indies"
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Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
This treaty moved the imaginary line made by the edict from Pope Alexander VI farther west -
Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504
Amerigo Vespucci crossed the Atlantic to the New World several times
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama lands in India
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed Isthmus of Panama overland
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan sailed to South America
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Jan 1, 1522
First Round-The-World Voyage Completed
Magellan had died but one ship and 18 crew members returned to Spain -
Jan 1, 1580
Spain annexed Portugal
