Age of European Exploration and Discovery

By yyu1230
  • 1400

    Turkish Empire cut off the land route for spices from Asia to Europe; search for sea route began.

  • 1418

    Prince Henry the Navigator founded school for sailors

  • 1462

    Pêro de Sintra reached Sierra Leone

  • 1473

    Lopo Gonçalves was the first to cross the equator

  • 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias reached the southern tip of Africa

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World

  • Jun 7, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas (Spain & Portugal)

    for settling conflicts over lands discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers; Line of Demarcation
  • 1500

    Portugal claimed Brazil

  • 1511

    Portugal captured Malacca

  • 1519

    Hernan Cortés landed in Mexico

  • 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan and his crew sailed around the world

  • Nov 16, 1532

    Francisco Pizarro executed the last Inca emperor

  • The English founded the East India Company (1600-1708)

  • The Dutch founded the Dutch East India Company.

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