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Jan 27, 1418
Prince Henry the Navigator and his school for sailors
Henry was one of the first originators of the Age of discovery and the Atlantic Slave trade. -
Jan 27, 1453
Turkish Empire cuts off land route from Europe to Asia
Muslims were taking control over the trade routes during that era and this later became known as the Age of Exploration. -
Jan 27, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
Bartholomeu Dias was one of the first Portuguese explorers to look for a sea route from Europe to Asia. -
Jan 27, 1492
Columbus
Christoper Columbus was an explorer that sailed the voyage to open the Americans to the European colonization. -
Jan 27, 1497
John Cabot
John Cabot was an British explorer to went on a voyage to claim land in Canada, mistaking it for Asia. -
Jan 27, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was a man who went on a voyage thinking he discovered new continents but when he really didn't. -
Jan 27, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was one of the first European explorers to look at the Pacific Ocean. -
Jan 27, 1515
Juan Ponce De Leon
He was a governor searching to explore one of the nearby island which was later known as Puerto Rico. -
Jan 27, 1518
Hernandez Cortez
Hernandez Cortez was a Spanish conquistador who set out to find the new world at age 19. -
Jan 27, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer who discovered a route we now known as the Strait of Magellan. -
Jan 27, 1532
Francisco Pizzaro
Francisco Pizzaro was an explorer who discovered Pacific Ocean and found Peru. -
Jan 27, 1532
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto went out to explorer when he was only 14 and he was one of the first European to discover Mississippi river. -
Jan 27, 1534
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier discovered a new route to Asia and went out on a expedition to seek gold. -
Jan 27, 1538
Francisco Coronado
Francisco Coronado was a Spanish explorer who led a huge expedition up towards Mexico western coast. -
Jan 27, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake was a man who liked piracy and explored the coast later on his journey. -
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was a English explorer who made a colony near Roanoke island and he studied at Oxford. -
Jacques Marquette
Jacques Marquette was a man who discovered Mississippi River on his voyage in the mid 1600's. -
Rene-Robert de La Salle
Rene-Robert de La Salle went to explore an island of Montreal which was unfortunately his last expedition which costed him his life. -
Luois Jolliet
Louis Jollies made expeditions to the Hudson bay and Labrador coast on his voyage.
