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He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.
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He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents.
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an Italian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is commonly held to have been the first European encounter with the mainland of North America since the Norse Vikings visits to Vinland in the eleventh century
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he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents.
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an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.
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an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages
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a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.
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a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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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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a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
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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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A german cartographer named Martin Waldseemuller used Vespucci's descriptionsof his voyage to publish a map of the region which he labeled it America.
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The Portugese seized the island of Goa.
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Ferdinand set out from Spainwith 5 ships to find a way reach the Pacific
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a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
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was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th–18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God.
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a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.
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A dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence.
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A groupof wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company
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The Dutch captured Malacca from the Portugese and opened tade with China.
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He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets".
