Age of exploration

Age of Exploration - Kimberly Knuth

By knuthk20
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1500

    European Monarchs Support Exploration and Colonization

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Commercial Revolution

    Europeans made major changes to their economies due to new exploration
  • Bartolomeu Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope
    Jan 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope

  • Christopher Columbus left Spain
    Aug 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus left Spain

  • Columbus lands on San Salvador
    Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus lands on San Salvador

  • Pope Alexander VI Issues an Edict
    Jan 1, 1493

    Pope Alexander VI Issues an Edict

    The edict drew and imaginary line from the north to south through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Dec 31, 1504

    Columbus makes three more voyages to the "Indies"

  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Jan 1, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    This treaty moved the imaginary line made by the edict from Pope Alexander VI farther west
  • Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504

    Amerigo Vespucci crossed the Atlantic to the New World several times

  • Vasco da Gama lands in India
    Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco da Gama lands in India

  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed Isthmus of Panama overland
    Jan 1, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed Isthmus of Panama overland

  • Ferdinand Magellan sailed to South America
    Jan 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan sailed to South America

  • First Round-The-World Voyage Completed
    Jan 1, 1522

    First Round-The-World Voyage Completed

    Magellan had died but one ship and 18 crew members returned to Spain
  • Spain annexed Portugal
    Jan 1, 1580

    Spain annexed Portugal

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