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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Modern World History
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Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry starts a navigation school
Prince Henry started the first oceanic navigation school in 1408. It gave sailors knowledge on how to sail down the west of Africa. -
Jan 1, 1487
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of africa.
Bartolomeu Dias was a knight of the royal court, and superintendent of the royal warehouses. He was a master at sailing and discovered a passage around the sothern tip of africa which made trading easier. -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
Christopher Columbus sailed and landed on a small island. He called this island San Salvador, and he believed he was in the Indies, or Indonesia and Malaysia. -
Jan 1, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was intented to divide newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal. Portugal recieved the lands to the East and Spain recieved the ones in the West. -
Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut
Vasco Da Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498. There, he ran into a conflict with the Indian ruler, and ended up with a heavy tax fee. -
Jan 1, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
Magellan was looking for a westward route to the Spice Islands. Eventually his group and him landed in the Phillipines. He was the first European to reach the islands. -
Jan 1, 1565
Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
Spains settlementstarted when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in spain. He established the first permanant settlement of San Miguel on the island Cebu. -
• The Dutch establish a trading center on Java
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France sets up its own East India Company
It was a chartered company, came about after fusing of three.The States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21 year monopoly. This let it carry out colonial activities in Asia.
