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Jan 27, 1487
Vasco da Gama sails across Indian Ocean to India
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Jan 27, 1487
Bartholomeu Dias rounds tip of Africa
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Jan 27, 1487
Portuguese begin exploring Africa
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Jan 27, 1492
Columbus reaches West Indies
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Jan 27, 1493
Treaty of Tordesillas signed
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Jan 27, 1498
England Sails to India
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Jan 27, 1500
Pedro Cabral lands in South America
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Jan 27, 1511
Albuquerque finda Melaka
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Jan 27, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the world
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Period: Jan 1, 1521 to
Spain Rules Mexico
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Jan 27, 1521
Aztecs defeted by Spanish
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Jan 27, 1555
Peace of Augusburg
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Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
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Dutch sail to India
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Dutch Establish settelments in North America
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English take New Netherland
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French colonize Canada and Louisiana
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Period: to
England Rules United States
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Period: to
England Rules Canada
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Incas Defeated by Spanish
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Slaverey Abolished in United States