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May 16, 1450
Prince Henry The Navigator
Son of the king of Portugal, had heard from African merchants about discoveries of gold there. He also hoped they would find a route to the far east. in the early 1400's Henry set up the first European school for navigators in sagres portugal. Henry worked with others to design and build better ships. Henry sent parties of exprers south along Africa's west cost. In Africa, the portuguguese explorers found gold dust, ivory, and poepel whom they enslaved. -
May 17, 1473
Bartolomeu Dias
In 1473 the equator was crossed. In 1487, Baratolomeu Dias readied ships for a long, hard voyage. Arter the storm ended, Dias went on with out knowing his ships had been blown around the tip of the continent. The tip of the coninent is now know as the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Storms. -
May 17, 1492
Cristopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus, the son of a weaver, was a skilled navigator from Genoa Italy. Columbus set sail from Spain in August, 1492 with tree small ships the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Christopher spent several months sailing around . On Christmas Eve, the Santa Maria ran around on a reef and was wrecked. He returned from his last voyage in 1504. -
May 19, 1493
Tready of Tordesillas
In 1493 the pope drew a papal line of demarcation or an imaginary line from the north Pole to the South Pole some 300 miles or 480 kilometers west of the Azores Islands. The Portugues however did not like the way the lands were Divided. They Proteseted. Other contries like England, France, and the Netherlands, piad no attention to the Pope's rulings. -
May 18, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci
Explored Atlantic coast of South America. One of the to believe he had reached a new world. -
May 18, 1497
John Cabot
Sailed with a handful of men. He explored the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scoti and established claims over England in the Americans. -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco Da Gama
In the summer of 1497, a portuguese noble named Vasco Da Gama led a convoy, or goup, or four ships down the Tagus river from Lisbon, Portugal. After four moths at sea, da Gama's convoy rounded the cape of god hope. -
May 17, 1500
Pedro Cadral
Dicovered Brazil and sailed east to indis. Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal -
May 17, 1513
ponce de leon
In 1513, ponce de leon sailed north from the island of Puerto Rico to explore Florida. Between 1519 and 1521, hernan cortes invaded Mexico. -
May 18, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Crosed the isthmus of Panama. He became the first European to see the great white sea. -
May 17, 1517
Ferdinand magellan
In 1517, Portugal controlled the easteren route to the Indies. In 1519, Magellan set sail for spain. -
May 18, 1519
Hernan Cortez
Hernan Invated Cortez.Destroyed the Native American empire ruled by the Aztec king Montezuma. Cortez and his troops took large amounts of gold back to Spain. -
May 18, 1523
Giovanni Verrazano
In 1523, the French hired Giovanni da Verrazaon, another Italian navigator, to find a northwest passage. He saild along the Atlantic coast fron North Carolina to New york. -
May 18, 1523
Jaques Cartier
Jaqes a French navigator sailed up to St. Lawrence River as far as President-Day Monteal. This gave the French a Claim to Eastern Canada. -
May 19, 1528
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Explored Florida. Gulf of region from Texas to Mexico. -
May 18, 1532
Francisco Pizzaro
In 1532, Francisco Pizarro invaded peru. Within five years, he conquered the Inca Empire. -
May 18, 1542
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Explored Pacific coast. Went to Drakes Bay near San Fransico. -
May 18, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
In 1534, King Francis 1, who was catholics, for bade the Huguenots to worship freely. He wanted all frence peopel to support the Roman Catholic Curch. -
John Davis
Explored west coast. In search of Northwest Passage to Asia. -
Henry Hudson
In 1609, the duch sent henry hudson an engulish naivagator to locate the passage. He explored the hudson river and sailed to what is today Albany, New York.
