Age of Exploration by Beverly Beckner

Compass was invented

Jan 1, 1100

Age of Exploration

Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1800

Commercial Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1799

Bartolomeu Dias sails around the Cape of Good Hope

Jan 1, 1488

Sails Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa and finds the route to the Indian Ocean.

Christopher Columbus left Spain

Aug 1, 1492

Columbus' Fleet Lands at San Salvador

Oct 12, 1492

Columbus Makes Three More Voyages to the "Indies"

Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Dec 31, 1504

Amerigo Vespucci crosses the Atlantic several times

Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504

Part of Spanish and Porteguese expeditions

Vasco da Gama lands in India

Jan 1, 1498

Perdo Cabral set sail westward for India

Jan 1, 1500

Porteguese conquered part of the southwest coast of India

Jan 1, 1510

Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing

Jan 1, 1513

The crossing was an overland crossinf of the Isthmus of Panama

Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain

Jan 1, 1519

Intentions to cross the Atlantic to South America... found himself in the Pacific OCean which he himself had named.

Spain annexed Portugal

Jan 1, 1580