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Henry sent many sailing expeditions down Africa's west coast, but did not go on them himself
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Afonso de Albuqueque was an exceedingly energetic commander of Portuguese India, who greatly expanded Western influence in the area.
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was a Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
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Italian navigator and discoverer of North America, was born in Genoa, but in 1461 went to live in Venice, of which he became a naturalized citizen in 1476.
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He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
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was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India to trade for spices
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While in Spain, Amerigo Vespucci began working on ships and ultimately went on his first expedition as a navigator in 1499.
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was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch.
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Another expansion took place in 1529 when Spanish soldiers, looking for fame and wealth, pushed from Mexico City northwest to what they called Nueva Galacia.
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he Returned to Spain and obtained a royal decree prohibiting the enforcement of slavery in Peru which he delivered personally.
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Hernán Cortés left Spain at the age of nineteen after a brief period studying law and a fortuitous escape from a jealous husband.
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Not much is known of his life before 1534, when he departed on his first voyage. He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him.
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Afonso started building churches and made Catholicism the state religion, under the aegis of his son Henrique, an ordained Catholic bishop.
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Ricci made his classical studies in his native town, studied law at Rome for two years, and on 15 Aug., 1571, entered the Society of Jesus at the Roman College, where he made his novitiate, and philosophical and theological studies.
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The first British Embassy to China, for the promotion of science and to secure a more favorable trade agreement and diplomatic ties, set sail from Spithead on 26 September 1792.
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Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal
