Amerigo Vespucci

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  • 1454

    Birth

    Amerigo Vespucci has been born on 1454 in Florence Italy.
  • 1499

    Early voyages n to the New World

    Amerigo Vespucci went on voyages to the New World after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain.
  • 1500

    Finds mouth of Amazon River

    While on a expedition in 1499-1500 he found the mouth of the Amazon River.
  • 1500

    Finds and names Cape Cattigara

    On his way back to a place named Trinidad he sighted the mouth of the Orinoco River then he headed for Haiti. Vespucci thought he has sailed along the coast of the extreme easterly coast of Asia where Ptolemy the geographer, thought the market of Cattigara to be; so he looked for the tip of this peninsula, calling it Cape Cattigara
  • 1501

    Vespucci goes for the Indian Ocean

    After returning to Spain, Vespucci asked the king for resources to lead a expedition to the Indian Ocean when he was denied he went to Portugal.
  • May 13, 1501

    Second expedition

    After a halt at the Cape Verde Islands, the expedition traveled southwestward and reached the coast of Brazil toward Cape St. Augustine.
  • 1502

    Vespucci’s namesake and reputation

    The voyage of 1501–02 is of fundamental importance in the history of geographic discovery in that Vespucci himself, and scholars as well, became convinced that the newly discovered lands were not part of Asia but a New World
  • 1504

    3rd voyage?

    Nobody knows if Vespucci took part in another expedition [1503]-[1504]
  • 1508

    Vespucci becomes the Chief of Navigation

    He becomes the Chief of Navigation after the Spanish court invited him in 1505 and he get promoted in 1508.
  • Feb 22, 1512

    Death

    He died to Malaria in February 22, 1512