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Believing he reached India, Columbus calls the Natives Indians. Columbus names the tiny Island San Salvador.
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Splits South America between Spain and Portugal.
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During his circumnavigation of the world, Magellan is killed in battle against the native Filipinos.
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Theory on heliocentric view of the universe published.
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Born at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Wa.