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Jan 27, 1404
Portuguese begin exploring Africa
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Jan 27, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias rounds tip of Africa
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Jan 27, 1492
Columbus reached the West Indies
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Jan 27, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas signed
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Jan 27, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails across Indian Ocean to India
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Jan 31, 1500
Pedro Cabral lands in South America
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Jan 27, 1511
Albuquerque finds Melaka
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Jan 31, 1518
First enslaved Africans taken from Africa to the New World
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Jan 27, 1521
Hernando Cortez defeated the Aztecs
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Aug 13, 1521
Spain gains control of Mexico
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Jan 27, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the world
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Jan 27, 1524
francisco pizarro defeated the Incas
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Jan 27, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Dutch sails to India
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England gains control of U.S.
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French colonize Canada and Louisiana
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Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
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England sails to India
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Dutch establish settlements on North America
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French colonize Canada and Louisiana
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England gained control of Canada
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England lost control of U.S.
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Spain loses control of Mexico
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Slavery was abolished in the U.S.
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England lost control of Canada