AP Euro Ch 14 Timeline

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  • 1488

    Bartholomeu Dias sails around the tip of Africa

  • Period: 1492 to 1502

    The voyages of Columbus

  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • 1498

    Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut in India

  • 1511

    Portuguese seize Malacca

  • 1514

    Landing of Portuguese ships in southern China

  • Period: 1519 to 1522

    Magellan's voyage around the world

  • Period: 1519 to 1522

    Spanish conquest of Mexico

    (In the chronology box, this one is after Magellan's voyage)
  • Period: 1530 to 1535

    Pizarro's conquest of the Inca

  • 1543

    Portuguese traders land in Japan

  • British East India Company formed

  • Dutch East India Company formed

  • English settlement at Jamestown

  • Champlain establishes settlement at Quebec

  • Dutch fort established at Batavia

  • Dutch seize Malacca form the Portuguese

  • England seize New Netherland

  • English establish trading post at Canton

  • Battle of Plassey

    A battle between England and Mughal Empire which the English won and received the right to collect taxes from lands surrounding Calcutta

  • French cede Canada to Britain

  • British mission to China