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Sep 13, 1419
1419
Prince Henry founds navigation school for Portugal -
Sep 14, 1488
1488
Bartolomeu Dias got passed the cape of good hope -
Sep 14, 1497
1497
Vasco da Gama started exploring the east coast of Africa -
Sep 15, 1498
1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of calicut -
Sep 15, 1499
1499
Vasco da Gama returned to Portugal with spices -
Sep 15, 1509
1509
Portugal makes a massive trading Empire in the Indian ocean and took control of Muslim spice trading posts and ships with the help of cannons -
Sep 15, 1510
1510
Portugal takes control of Goa and makes it the capital of their trading empire -
Sep 15, 1514
1514
Portugal strengthens its hold on trade by building a fort in Hormuz -
Sep 15, 1521
1521
Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philippines and claimed the islands and kept moving on in their expeditions -
1619
The new independent Dutch nation builds trading headquarters at Batavia in Java an island in the East Indies