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1000
Leif Erikson - Viking
1st European to reach N. America -
1488
Bartolomeu Dias sailed for Portugal
sailed from Portugal southward made it to the bottom of Africa - discovering the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. -
1492
Christopher Columbus - Sailed for Spain
Tried to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic, landed in the Americas but believed he had reached Asia (even when he died in 1506) -
1493
Christopher Columbus - Sailed for Spain
His 2nd Voyage to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean -
1497
Vasco de Gama sailed for portugal
1st to sail all the way around Africa to Asia -
1498
Christopher Columbus - Sailed for Spain
His 3rd Voyage to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean -
1502
Christopher Columbus - Sailed for Spain
his 4th and final Voyage to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean -
1520
Ferdinand Magellan sailed for Spain
He circumnavigated the globe. It took under 3 years to do.