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Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Boesmans River, where a padrão was erected before turning back
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Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Boesmans River, where a padrão was erected before turning back
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Columbus and his crew became the first Christians to make landfall in the Americas. Columbus was an Italian born navigator sailing for the Crown of Castile in search of a westward route to Asia, to access the sources of spices and other goods
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In 1497, John’s successor, King Manuel I, chose da Gama to lead a Portuguese fleet to India in search of a maritime route from Western Europe to the East. With the help of a local navigator, da Gama was able to cross the Indian Ocean and reach the coast of India at Calicut in May 1498.
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He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain.
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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. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded.
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Ferdinand Magellan, traveling west from Europe, in 1521, reached a region of Southeast Asia, which he had reached on previous voyages traveling east. Magellan thereby achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history.
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In 1526, the Portuguese completed the first transatlantic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed.
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. The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies.
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Map of British colonies in North America. England's first permanent settlement in the Americas was founded in 1607 in Jamestown, led by Captain John Smith and managed by the Virginia Company.
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In 1513, he was the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
