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He was a Portuguese Prince who began sending mission out inti the Atlantic. By 1419 they discovered Madeira. -
A huge breakthrough for the Portuguese occurred when Gil Eanes sailed beyond Cape Bojador and returned alive. -
The first European to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southernmost tip of Africa. This was a significant accomplishment as it proved there was another ocean on the other side of the continent. -
Funded by the king and queen, he set sail on his ship the Santa Maria and found America. -
The governments of Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas, named for the city in Spain in which it was created. It neatly divided the “New World” of the Americas between the two superpowers. -
Henry VII sponsors John Cabot to find the Northwest Passage. -
He circled Africa and made it to India. Which increased Portugal’s wealth. -
Balboa led an expedition of some 190 Spaniards and a number of Indians southward across the Isthmus of Panama. -
The 95 Theses was a list of questions and propositions for debate that Martin Luther wrote when he began to question the practice of selling indulgence. They became the catalyst for reformation and changed the course of religious and cultural history. -
Ferdinand Magellan led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean. -
Hernán Cortés and a small band of men brought down the Aztec empire in Mexico. -
During his voyage, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines. -
On France's behalf, Verrazzano and his crew became the first known Europeans to sail into New York Bay. They were greeted peacefully by the Native Americans and treated well. -
Navigator claimed northern North America for France, naming the area around the St. Lawrence River New France -
The first Englishman to navigate the Straits of Magellan, a sea route at the southern tip of South America linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. -
Acted as a part-trade organization, part-nation-state and reaped vast profits from overseas trade with India, China, Persia and Indonesia for more than two centuries. -
Its purpose was to open trade in North and South America, build forts, maintain troops, and challenge Spanish trading in the West Indies. -
He set out to find a Northeast passage, his attempts contributed significantly to the geography of North America. -
Dutch seized Spanish possessions in the West Indies; these islands were the foundation of what would later be known as the Netherlands Antilles. -
The first European to sight Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. -
McCartney Mission, a British mission sent to China in 1792-1793 to secure more favorable trade for Britain.