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Feb 1, 1418
Prince Henry starts a navigation school
Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres -
Oct 10, 1487
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias was the first person to sail from portugal all the way down and around the southern tip of africa to get to asia -
Feb 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the caribbean
Christopher Columbus sails for asia and finds the caribbean. -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain and portugal sign the treaty of tordillas
The treatty of tordillas is how spain and portugal could divide newly discovered land outside of england. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
Vasco da gama reaches india. -
Feb 7, 1564
Spain begins settlements in the philipenes.
spain begins to colonize the philipenes. -
The Dutch establish a trading center on Java
The dutch start trading on java -
France sets up its own east india company
France sets up a way to trade goods with india and the rest of the eastern hemisphere. -
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
magellan was the first person to sail around the world and land in the philippines.