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Jan 31, 1460
Prince Henery the Navigator
was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total. He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents. -
Jan 31, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias ' exploration
he was a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, and a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. -
Jan 31, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian west of the Cape Verde islands off the west coast of Africa -
Feb 4, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
Magellan's expedition became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan, and the first to cross the Pacific. His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, although Magellan himself did not complete the entire voyage, being killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines -
Feb 4, 1521
Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
The invasion of the Filipinos by Spain did not begin in earnest until 1564, when another expedition from New Spain, commanded by Miguel López de Legaspi, arrived. Permanent Spanish settlement was not established until 1565 when an expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Governor-General of the Philippines, arrived in Cebu from New Spain. Spanish leadership was soon established over many small independent communities that previously had known no central rule. -
Jan 31, 1524
Vasco da Gama reaches India
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. -
Dutch East Indies Company
Was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. -
France sets up its own East India Company
it was a commercial enterprise to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in the East Indies. it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. It resulted from the fusion of three earlier companies, the 1660 Compagnie de Chine, the Compagnie d'Orient and Compagnie de Madagascar
