-
Jan 1, 1400
Italian and Arab merchants ran the trade with Asia.
-
Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias
A Portugeuse exlporer, reached the Southern tip of Africa. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovered the Americas.
Christopher Columbus sailed looking for India but instead found/discovered America. -
Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas signed.
Set boundary for Spanish and Portuguese exploration. -
Jan 1, 1501
Amerigo Vespucci was one of the first to go explore new lands.
He was an Italian sailor who set out in 1501 to find a sea route to Asia. -
Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa heard Native American reports of another sea and a province rich in gold.
Vasco led an expedition through the jungles of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean, and he claimed the land. -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernado Cortes landed on the Mexican coast with 508 conquistadors.
-
Jun 30, 1520
The Axtecs rebelled and trapped the Spanish in Tenochtitlan.
-
Jan 1, 1521
Cortes conquers the Aztec Empire for Spain.
-
Jan 1, 1531
Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire for Spain.
-
Jan 1, 1531
Francisco Pizarro led 180 men into Peru.
-
Jan 1, 1534
Cartier explores the St.Lawrnce in search of the Northwest Passage
-
English navy defeats Spanish Armada.
Spain loses its invincibility. -
Dutch purchase Manhattan Island from Native Americans.
