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Jan 31, 1418
Prince Henry starts navigation school
In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa. -
May 1, 1488
Bartolomeu rounds the southern tip of Africa
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Feb 1, 1492
Columbus reaches the carribean
He got there on Christmas day. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama led a voyage to Calicut, India
da Gama sent presents to the Zamorin;
four cloaks of scarlet cloth, six hats, four branches of corals, twelve almasares, a box with seven brass vessels, a chest of sugar, two barrels of oil and a cask of honey. -
Mar 16, 1521
Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
He was the first european to reach the islands. -
Feb 13, 1565
Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
Began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition. -
The Dutch establish a trading center on Java
It was the first dutch trading post in Indonesia northwest Java. -
France sets up it's own East India company
Founded to compete with the British and Dutch companies. -
Treaty of Tordesillas
In 1947, Spain and Portugal signed this treaty. This divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands off the west coast of Africa.
