-
-
Zheng He takes first voyage
-
Prince Henry the Navigator founds a school of Navigation on the southwest coast of Portugal for mapmakers, instrument makers, shipbuilders, scientists, and sea captains.
-
Columbus makes first voyage, lands in the Carribean.
-
Columbus' crew spots land and the find the Carribean, thinking it was China.
-
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, stating that everything to the west of an imaginary line cutting through the americas would be Spain's and everything to the east would be Portugal's.
-
First African slaves arrive in the Americas.
-
Juan Ponce de Leon lands on current day Florida and claims it for Spain.
-
Cotres conquers the Aztec Empire.
-
A Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Megellan arrived in the Philippines.
-
Pizzaro conquers the Incan Empire.
-
English found Jamestown
-
Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec
-
Dutch open trade with Java
-
Manchus establish Qing Dynasty in China
-
Charles I of england is Executed
-
French and Indian War begins.
-
American colonies declare independence from Britain
-
Storming of Bastille ignites French Revolution.
-
Britain seeks to trade with China
