Final timeline

By joseluis.jasso
  • Oct 9, 996

    First European in North American

    Leif Erikson , where he explored a region called Vinland. Is considered to be the first explorer in the American continent, beating Christopher Colombus by 500 years.
  • Aug 31, 1299

    Marco Polo returns home

    After serving to Chinese ruler Kubla Khan for 20 years, Marco Polo returns to Europe, bringing the first taste of Asian culture to Europe.
  • Feb 3, 1488

    Discovery of Cape of Good Hope

    Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias led the first European expedition round the Cape of Good Hope, the first European known to sail around the southermost tip of Africa, in 1488.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    New World of Americas is discovered

    Christopher Columbus, sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain, sailing in La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa María, arrives to the today's coast of Cuba.
  • Period: Jul 8, 1497 to May 20, 1498

    First sea trip from Europe to India

    Vasco the Gama is the first explorer to make a sea trip from Europe to India, by going around the African continent.
  • May 14, 1501

    Discovery of South America

    Amerigo Vespucci departs on his 3rd and most famous trans-Atlantic Journey. In this voyage he discovers the present-day Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata. Believing he discovered a new continent, he called this New world "South America".
  • Apr 2, 1513

    Discovery of Florida

    Juan Ponce de León, while looking for the "Fountain of Youth", lands in the Florida coast. This is the first detailed exploration to that zone.
  • Period: Sep 20, 1519 to Sep 8, 1522

    First circumnavigation of the globe

    Thanks to the efforts of Ferdinand Magellan, the first trip around the planet was made, proving that the Earth is round and not plane as many believed.
  • Aug 13, 1521

    Aztec empire falls

    Cortés, with the help of many native allies who didn't liked aztecs, siege the capital city Tenochtitlán and conquers the aztecs.
  • Nov 15, 1533

    Conquest of the Inca Epire

    Francisco Pizarro, with the help of an Spanish army, conquest the Incan Empire by entering to Cuzco.
  • May 8, 1541

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto and their crew reach the Mississippi River. They are the first documented European explorers who traveled through it.

  • Jamestown settlement founded

    Jhon Smith and his crew founded the settlement named Jamestown, the first permanent British North American colony.
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    Sacagawea leads the Corps expedition

    Sacagawea, with her 2-months baby helps explorers Lewis and Clark during their expedition through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and Back. She received no compensantion for it.
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    Lewis and Clark Corps expedition

    By the appointment of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored more than 8,000 miles with the help of Sacagawea. Lewis received his salary, 1,600 acres of land and named governor of Louisiana Territory.

  • Calypso boat sails to Red Sea

    Jacques Costueau sails aboard the Calypso ship, a former US mine-sweeper, into the Red Sea. In there, the crew would return with valuable information about the unknown fauna and flora from the Red Sea's corals.

  • First man in Mt. Everest peak

    Edmund Hillary, along with Tenzing Norgay, become the first people to reach the peak of the Mt. Everest and comebackalive.

  • First man in space

    Aboard of the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space.

  • Man lands on the moon

    Starship Apollo 11 lands on the moon, making Neil Armstrong the first man that leaves his footprint out of planet Earth.