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Explorers

By maronz19
  • Oct 24, 1400

    Prince Henry

    Prince Henry
    Prince Henery was a prince of Portigal. He had a navigation school where he taught Europeans and they made maps, boats, and compasses. This located in Portugal
  • Jan 21, 1475

    Balboa

    Balboa
    Was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.
  • May 17, 1488

    Bartolommeo Dias

    Bartolommeo Dias
    A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
  • Aug 7, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    Christorper Columbus is a spanish sailor. He sailed to America, Italy, and Spain. He was the first European to find America
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of the Americas

    Discovery of the Americas
    Extensive European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Genoese Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East but inadvertently found the Americas.
  • May 4, 1493

    Line of demarcation

    Line of demarcation
    In 1493, the Pope drew a line on the globe cutting the New World in half. This line was known as the Line of Demarcation. Any territory discovered on the east side of the line was to be controlled by Portugal, while any lands found on the west side of the line were to be ruled over by Spain.
  • Jun 7, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Treaty of Tordesillas
    Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
  • Mar 18, 1497

    Pizzaro

    Pizzaro
    Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire.
  • Aug 29, 1499

    Cortez

    Cortez
    He was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
  • Feb 22, 1512

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    An Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially told from Columbus's voyages.
  • Apr 27, 1513

    Panama crossed for the first time

    Panama crossed for the first time
    Balboa crossed Panama for the first time. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
  • Jan 12, 1519

    Balboa dies

    Balboa dies
    A new governor was reportedly jealous of Balboa and ordered him to be arrest on charges of treason. After a brief trial, Balboa was beheaded on January 12, 1519, in Acla, near Darién, Panama
  • Sep 7, 1519

    Magellan

    Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
  • Dec 24, 1524

    Da Gama dies

    Da Gama dies
    Died in Kochi, India from the disease Malaria. First man to sail around the globe

  • Christopher Columbus dies

    Christopher Columbus dies
    On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century