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Jan 1, 1415
Prince Henry the Navigator
He gathered cartographers and started a school for navigators. -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
He rounded the southern tip of Africa. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Discovered America by sailing west with the three small ships: Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. -
Aug 3, 1492
The Tainos
Columbus met the Taino indians. Other conquistadors also visited them bring guns, horses, and diseases. -
Jan 1, 1493
Line of Demarcation
Pope Alexander set this to divide the non-European world into two zones. -
Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
It was signed between two countries, unlining the specific terms from the Line of Demarcation. -
Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot
An explorer who traveled from England to Newfoundland and all the way back to England. -
Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama
Led four ships aroun the Cape of Good Hope. -
Jan 1, 1500
Francis I of France
He worked with the English and the Dutch to get some of the luxuries from the Spanish and the Portuguese. -
Jan 1, 1503
Afonso de Albuquerque
Thanks to him, the Portuguese were able to reach the Indian Ocean. -
Jan 1, 1505
Affonso I
He became king of Africa and called on the Portuguese to help him develop Kongo as a modern Christian state. -
Jan 1, 1507
Amerigo Vespucci
He wrote a journal about his voyage to Brazil. A German cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Amerigo Vespucci's name to name the region the "Americas." -
Jan 1, 1510
Balboa
He traveled along Cental America to South America. -
Sep 20, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
He set out from Spain with 5 ships to find a way to reach the Pacific. He was the one who changed the Balboa's South Sea to the Pacific Ocean. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. -
Jan 1, 1521
Herman Cortez
Captured and destroyed the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. -
Jan 1, 1530
African slaves
The Spanish began bringing Africans to the Americas as slave laboreres by the 1530s. -
Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro
A Spaniard who was interested in the Inca's riches. -
Jan 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier
He traveled from France to Newfounland. -
Jan 1, 1542
Bartolome de Las Casas
He condemned the encomienda system and passed the New Laws of Indies, bringing in workers from Africa. -
Jan 1, 1551
University of Mexico
The University of Mexico was established. -
Matteo Ricci
A Jesuit priest who greatly influenced the Chinese. -
Dutch East India Company
Formed by a group of wealthy Dutch merchants that had full sovereign powers. -
Henry Hudson
He traveled from the Netherlands to Newfoundland. The Hudson River was named after him. -
Manchus
They invaded Korea before it had fully recovered from previous incasions. Korea became one of Manchus's tributary states. -
Japanese
They refused to trade with anyone. Japan reamained isolated for more than 200 years. -
Cape Town
This was built by the Dutch immigrants. The people who settled here were the Boers. -
Canada
The French claimed present-day Canada as one of their colonies. -
The Boers
They began to push north from the Cape Colony. -
The French and Indian War
The French and the Indians came together to fought off the English. This war lasted until 1763. -
The Treaty of Paris
It officially ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America. -
Lord Macartney
He arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mission.
