Age of exploration

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Time span for age of exploration

  • Prince Henry the Navigator
    Jan 1, 1415

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    He led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal. He also created a school
  • Bartholomeu Dias
    Jan 1, 1488

    Bartholomeu Dias

    He rounded the southern tip of Africa.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Jan 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    He landed in the Caribbean islands that are now called the West Indies.
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Jan 1, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Portugal had the same rights agreed to in the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed btwn the 2 countries in 1494
  • John Cabot
    Jan 1, 1497

    John Cabot

    found rich fishing grounds off Newfoundland, which he claimed for England.
  • Vasco da Gama
    Jan 1, 1497

    Vasco da Gama

    He followed in Dias footsteps, leading four ships around the Cape of Good Hope. After a ten-month voyage, da Gama reached the great spice port of Calicut on the west coast of India.
  • Amerigo Vespuci 
    Jan 1, 1499

    Amerigo Vespuci 

    America was named after him. Made a voyage to Brazil
  • Jan 1, 1505

    Affonso I

    he called on the Portuguese to develop Kongo as a modern Christian state.
  • Martin Waldseemuller
    Jan 1, 1507

    Martin Waldseemuller

    In 1507, a German cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Vespucci’s descriptions of his voyage to publish a map of the region, which he labeled “America.”
  • Afonso de Albuquerque 
    Jan 1, 1510

    Afonso de Albuquerque 

    Under his control the Portugal seized the island of Goa off the coast of India making it their major military and commercial base.
  • Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
    Jan 1, 1519

    Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs

    he landed on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons .He began inland trek toward Tenochtitlàn, the capital of the Aztec empire. WIth the help of a guide he fought Moctezuma and captured their capital.
  • Magellan
    Nov 1, 1520

    Magellan

    In November 1520 Magellan’s ships entered a bay at the southern tip of South America
  • Jan 1, 1530

    land grants

    Portugal began to issue grants of land to portuguese nobles who agreed to develop the land and share profits with the crown.
  • Francisco Pizarro and the Incans
    Jan 1, 1532

    Francisco Pizarro and the Incans

    Fought in a civil war. Aided by Indian allies he captured Atahualpa and slaughtered thousands of Inca.
  • Jacques Cartier
    Jan 1, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    began exploring the coastline of eastern Canada, eventually discovering the St. Lawrence River.
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Portugese reaching Japan

    the portuguese reached Japan, followed by the Spanish, Dutch and English
  • Bartolome de Las Casas
    Jan 1, 1542

    Bartolome de Las Casas

    Casas detailed the horrors that spanish rule had brought to Native Americans and pleaded with the king to end the abuse
  • Jan 1, 1542

    Laws of Indies

    Spain passed the New Laws of the Indies.
  • University of Mexico
    Jan 1, 1551

    University of Mexico

    The University of Mexico was established as early as 1551. Broad avenues and public monuments symbolized European power and wealth. To meet the churches need for educated priests the colonies built universities
  • Matteo Ricci

    Matteo Ricci

    Jesuit Priest that made a particularly strong influence on the Chinese
  • Francis I of France

    Francis I of France

    succeeded in bringing back Protestant convertsrenewed piety found expression in literature and art
  • Settlement of colonies

    France, the Netherlands, England, and Sweden joined Spain in settling North America.
  • Jsmestown, Virgina

    Jsmestown, Virgina

    The English built their first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia i
  • Quebec Settlement

    Quebec Settlement

    The first permanent French settlement was established in 1608, when Samuel de Champlain established a colony in Quebec
  • Pilgrims

    Pilgrims

    another group of English settlers landed at Plymouth, MassachusettsPilgrims, or English Protestants who rejected the Church
  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    a new wave of English Protestant immigrants arrived to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    they signed the Mayflower compact in which they set out guidelines for governing their North American colony
  • Tokugawa

    By 1638 the Tokugawa's had turned against European traders. Japan barred all european merchants and forbade Japanese to travel abroad
  • Manchu sezing Bejiing

    victorious Manchu armies seized Beijing and made it their capital.The Manchus set up a new dynasty called the Qing.
  • Kangzi

    Kangzi

    extended chinese power into central asia and promoted chinese culture
  • The Boers

    The Boers

    Dutch farmers, called Boers settled around Cape Town.Over time they ousted enslaved or killed the people who lived there.a Calvinist belief that they were the elect or chosen of God.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Britain and France emerged as powerful rivals. In North America, war between the two powers erupted,
  • Seven Years war

    Seven Years war

    The French and India war turned into a worldwide struggle known as the Seven Years’ War, which spread to Europe in 1756 and then to India and Africa
  • British attack on Quebec

    British troops launched an attack on Quebec, the capital of New France. British soldiers and colonial troops launched a series of campaigns against the French in Canada and on the Ohio frontier. France won several victories
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris officially ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America. France was forced to cede the Louisiana Territory over to Spain. France regained the rich sugar-producing islands in the Caribbean and the slave-trading outposts in Africa that the British had seized during the war
  • Lord Macartney

    Lord Macartney

    arrived in china at the head of Britain diplomatic mission. He brought samples of British made goods to show the chinese who looked on the goods as rather crude products, thought they were gifts offered as tribute to an emperor
  • Korea

    before the country was fully recovered he Manchus invaded Korea. Korea became a tributary state