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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is Born
Prince Henry the Navigator. Born 4 March, 1394; died 13 November, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal, by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt. In 1415 he commanded the expedition which captured Ceuta, Portugal's first oversea conquest, and there won his knightly spurs. -
Jul 17, 1402
Yonglo Becomes Ming Emperor
the fourth son of the new leader of the central Red Turbans, Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. -
Jul 11, 1405
Zheng He captains his first voyage
He was a pretty young man when he started this voyage -
Sep 27, 1479
Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims
The Treaty of Alcaçovas ended the war in September 1479, and as Ferdinand had succeeded his father in Aragon earlier in the same year -
Mar 12, 1488
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope
He didnt really find what he was looking for. But what he did find was a new sea route. -
Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus spots land in North America
Christopher Columbus may have been looking for a new trade route to Asia when he set out in 1492, but he discovered something far more important. that he had seen a sort of light or aura before Triana did, allowing him to keep the reward .. -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain and Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco Da Gama lands in India
Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, India. Having successfully sailed around the southern tip of Africa, da Gama had pioneered a sea route from Europe to Asia that bypassed the Muslim nations that controlled the overland spice trade. -
Jan 28, 1499
Amerigo Vespucci chartrs New World Coast
During his first voyage he explored the northern coast of South America to well beyond the mouth of the ... Columbus found the new world, but Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world. -
Apr 28, 1519
H. Cortez lands on Mexican coast
At this time a Spanish army, led by Panfilo Narvaez, landed on the Mexican coast, with orders from Velazquez to capture and arrest Cortes -
Nov 16, 1532
F. Pizzaro meets Atapualapa
Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and ... Pizarro met Atahualpa just outside Cajamarca, a small Incan town ,at the last moment, Valverde offered the emperor clemency if he would convert. -
Dec 31, 1534
Jacques Cartier Claims land in Canada
was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada -
English East India Company is founded
The East India Company was originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company -
Dutch East India Company is founded
The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia -
Henry Hudson is last seen
Hudson intended to search for a western outlet from James Bay. But the crew mutinied and set Hudson adrift in a small boat with his son, John, and seven loyal crewmen. Hudson and his party were never seen again. -
New Netherlands becomes New York
he granted the land to his brother, the Duke of York, before officially owning it. When a powerful English military unit appeared in New Amsterdam, Governor Stuyvesant was forced to surrender and New Netherland became New York. -
La Salle claim Mississippis river for Spain
He was the first European to travel the length of the Mississippi River. His mission was to explore and establish fur-trade routes along the river. La Salle named the entire Mississippi basin Louisiana, in honor of the King, -
7 Years' War begins
The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War -
First slave revolts in Hispanola
This happened because slaves were being treated really bad
