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1200 BCE
1200 CE
One of the most famous Norse explorers, Leif Eriksson, discovered Greenland around -
Feb 8, 1000
10th century
Norse sailors explored and settled limited areas on the shores of present-day Greenland and Canada. -
Feb 7, 1430
1430
Infante Dom Henrique sailed to the Madeiras an Azores, and south, along the coast of Africa. -
Feb 7, 1469
1469-1474
fernao gomes he sailed along the coast of Africa Guinea coast, every year going 100 leagues further -
Feb 8, 1484
1484
Diogo Cão - Discovered the mouth of the Congo River -
Feb 7, 1492
1492
Extensive European colonization
and Christopher columbus -
Feb 7, 1492
1492
era is known as the period of the Columbian Exchange, a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following Columbus's voyages to the Americas -
Feb 7, 1494
1494
Ratified by the Pope, these 2 kingdoms divided the entire non-European world into 2 areas of exploration and colonization -
Feb 7, 1497
1497
Vasco de Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India and helped establish European trade in the Indian Ocean. -
Feb 7, 1519
1519
Ferdinand Magellan proved the world was round by circumnavigating the globe -
Feb 8, 1520
1520
In February, 1520, they were exploring the coast of Patagonia -
Feb 8, 1521
1521
Juan Ponce de Leon - set sail from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 15th, 1521. He went to colonize Florida, and had seeds, and priests to convert the Indians -
Feb 8, 1524
1524
sailed south for about 110 miles, and turned north, to avoid running into any Spaniards, he sailed another 250 miles north, along the coast -
Feb 8, 1546
1546
the northern Mayan cities had been defeated, and 500,000 were sold into slavery
