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Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry starts a navigation school
in 1418 Prince Henry started a navigation school for ocean navagation in portugal. the school was for navigate, map makeing, and learning science. -
Oct 10, 1487
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
bartolomeu dias was appointed form king john II to sail around the sothern tip of in hopes of finding a tradBartolomeu. -
Nov 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
First European to reach the New World. -
Sep 5, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
A 1494 agreement between spain and portugal. this declared that lands newly descoverd to the west was spains. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
A Portugese explorer who began exploring in 1498. -
Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
ferdinand magellan and his crew was the first ones to sail around the world -
Jan 31, 1571
Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
arrived in Guam and the Phillipines Islands said that the spanish have the east Indies. -
The Dutch establish a trading center on Java
They had to carry out colional activites in Asia. it was founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century. -
France sets up its own East India Company
The spice trade was highly power by the Portugese who used lisbon as a staple port.
