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Colombus sails from Palos, Spain with 3 small ships. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Colombus sailed west from the Canary Islands but changed course to the SW. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Colombus lands on a small island in the Bahamas and took posession of it for Spain while also discovering other neighboring islands. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Colombus.aspx
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Colombus sighted Cuba. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Colombus reaches Hispaniola. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Colombus sets sail on his second expedition from Cadiz with 17 ships and 1500 colonists aboard. He landed in the Lesser Antilles and discovered the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Around this time Colombus explored the coast of Cuba and discovered Jamaica. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Around this time Colombus was forced to transport convictsd as colonists. He sailed farther south and landed in Trinidad and sailed across the mouth of the Orinoco River. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Around this time Colombus set out on his fourth expedition. He hit the coast of Honduras in Central America and coasted southward until he reached the Gulf of Darien. He attempted to return to Hispaniola but got stranded in Jamaica. He then returnded to Spain where he gave up on anymore expeditions. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Christopher_Columbus.aspx
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Magellan sets sail from Sanclucar de Barrameda with 5 vessels and about 265 men. He sights the south American coast near Pernambuco. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ferdinand_Magellan.aspx
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Magellan and his men explored the Rio de la Plata. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ferdinand_Magellan.aspx
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Magellan and his crew discover and enter the strait that now ears his name. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ferdinand_Magellan.aspx
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Magellan and his crew reaches the Pacific Ocean. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ferdinand_Magellan.aspx
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Magellan reaches the Marianas and 10 days later the Philippines where he is later killed on April 27th. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ferdinand_Magellan.aspx
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Around this time De Soto left Spain on an expedition and later landed on the Florida coast. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hernando_De_Soto.aspx
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Around this time De Soto and his men wintered near Tallahassee then went North throug Georgia and the Carolinas into Tennesee then turned South into Alabama. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hernando_De_Soto.aspx
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Around this time De Soto and his men were the first white men to see and cross the Mississippi River. They journeyed up the Arkansas River and into Oklahoma and became discouraged so they went back to the banks of the Mississippi River where De Soto died. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hernando_De_Soto.aspx
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Around this time Drake set sail with 2 ships and 73 men. On his first voyage he took the town of Nombre de Dios on the isthmus of Panama, burned Portobelo and gained wealth and fame. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sir_Francis_Drake.aspx
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Around this time Drake set sail with 5 ships to raid the Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World. He was the first Englishman to navigate the straits of Magellan. He journeyed to San Francisco Bay which he took possession of and named New Albion and for Queen Elizabeth 1. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sir_Francis_Drake.aspx
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He arrived at Plymouth with treasures of high value for Queen Elizabeth 1. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sir_Francis_Drake.aspx
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Around this time Drake commanded a fleet that sacked Vigo in Spain and burned Sao Tiago in the Cape Verede Islands. He plundered the Florida coast. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sir_Francis_Drake.aspx
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Around this time Abel sailed from Batavia visiting Tasmania and New Zealand, touched the Tonga Islands and returned to Batavia in 1643 having circumnavigated Australia. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Abel_Janszoon_Tasman.aspx
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Around this time Abel established the continuity of land from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Northwest coast of Australia at the Tropic of Capricorn. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Abel_Janszoon_Tasman.aspx
