Exploration Timeline

By ashley1121
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christophers first voyage

    Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the Caribbean
  • Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco de Gama

    Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama goes around Africa and reaches India
  • Jan 1, 1507

    The New World is named

    German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller names the New World America, after Amerigo Vespucci.
  • Jan 1, 1510

    The siege of Goa

    The Portuguese take over the Indian island Goa, and make it their major military and commercial base.
  • Jan 1, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean

    Spanish "adventurer" Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean, which he named the South Sea.
  • Jan 1, 1514

    Portuguese reach China

    Portuguese ships reach China for the first time. The Chinese were not impressed with their gifts, but eventually allowed them to have a trading post.
  • Jan 1, 1521

    Megellan claimes the Philippines for Spain

    Magellan claims the Philippines for Spain .In the next 50 years the Spainish conquered and colonized the Philippines.
  • Jan 1, 1522

    Magellan

    Megallan and his crew circumnavigate the world.
    Megallan himself did not survive the expedition because he dies in the Phillipines
  • Jan 1, 1543

    Portuguese arrive in Japan

    The Portuguese reach Japan and begin trading with the Japanese.Soon other Europeans begin trading with the Japanese

  • Jesuit priest arrives in China

    Matteo Ricci became friends with Confucian scholars and when he died he was buried near the emperor. Most of Europe's knowledge about China comes from Matteo Ricci's writings.

  • Dutch begin trading in Asia

    A Dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam with a cargo of pepper, cloves, and other spices. The sucess of the voyage got the Dutch more involved in foreign trade and lead to the creation of the Dutch East India Company

  • Dutch East India Company was established

    The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602.Very powerful because the Dutch Government had complete control over it.

  • Dutch take Malaca

    The Dutch take Malaca, (a coastal city that was a center for spice trading) away from the Portuguese and opened trade with China

  • Creation of the African Association

    Britian establishes the African Association to sponsor Britsh explorers in Africa.In the next century European exploration of Africa "exploded"

  • Lord Macartney goes to China

    Lord Macartney arrives in China to persuade the Chinese to trade with the British but failed because of a culture barrior or diffrence.