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Jul 11, 1405
Zheng he's First Voyage
Zheng he was a Muslim born in China who was an eunuch who was an administrator of the Mongol Empire and sailor. On his first Voyage he led a fleet of 317 and 28,000 men. -
Jan 1, 1419
Prince Henry founds first navigation school
Prince Henry wanted to reach the and take the wealth of the outside world. He made a navigation school for the purpose to encourage more exploration and incerase the number of people dedicated to exploration. (Exact date unknown) -
Jan 1, 1433
Ming China adopts isolationist policy following Zheng He's seventh voyage
On Zheng He's seventh voyage he went gave all the countries he visited silk and silver to show how powerful the Chinese were, but Scholars argued that they were wasting resources that could have been used for protecting themselves from the north, so soon after the voyage ended China became isolated. (Exact date unknown) -
Dec 5, 1492
Christopher Columbus lands in Hispañola
Christopher Columbus, after exploring Cuba and the Bahamas, reached an island which is Hispaniola today. When they had landed Santa Maria became grounded and built a fort with the broken wood. He told 40 of his men to wait for his return there and wait for his return, but when he does the fort is destroyed and everyone was gone. -
Sep 17, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was made to enforce the Line of Demarcation, an imaginary line that goes down America that separates Spanish territory from Portuguese. The West is given to Spain while the East Portugal. It was changed when Portugal started to complain that Spain's territory was bigger, but there were no problems. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama reaches India
After Dias discovered how to get around Africa, Vasco da Gama pushed further and reached a port called Calicut and saw spices, rare silks, and gems and loaded his ship with them. The voyage coasted about 1/60 of the cargo they brought back. -
Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun of Japan
Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of Hideyoshi's allies, unified Japan after the Battle of Sekigahara, which made all the daimyos respect and fear him. Tokugawa was the only shogun and ruled alone. He moved Japan's Capital to his base in Edo. -
Manchus establish Qing Dynasty in China
The Ming Dynasty had started to decline when corrupt officials, higher taxes, bad harvest, bad rulers, and running short on money appeared. Manchuria attacked, defeated them, and their leader became the new emperor of China.
