Eric Hood Exploration Timeline

The Black Death

Nov 7, 1346

A huge outbreak of plague carried by rat fleas, kills 1/3 of the population http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml

the first guns appear in europe

Nov 7, 1347

http://www.renaissance-spell.com/Renaissance-Weapons.html

Book written telling how to construct and use the astrolabe, a navigation tool

Nov 7, 1390

http://www.canterburytales.org/

Major improvments are made to sailing ships

Nov 7, 1400

http://epress.anu.edu.au/spanish_lake/ch01s05.html

Ptolomey's map is rediscovered

Nov 7, 1406

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/PtolemyMap.htm

Columbus discovered the West Indies

Nov 7, 1492

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm

Treaty of Tordesillas dividees the world's undiscovered land between Spain and Portugal

Nov 7, 1494

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa112999a.htm

Vasco de Gama

Nov 7, 1497

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/dagama/

Amerigo Vespucchi explores along the coast of South America and decides it is a new contentient and not part of Asia

Nov 12, 1499

http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/vespucci.html

Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and discovers the Pacific Ocean

Nov 12, 1513

http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/03ageofexploration/Balboa_Reaches.html

The astronomer Nicholas Copernicus publishes a book which says that the earth and other planets revolve around the son.

Nov 12, 1543

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Copernicus-Nicolaus.html#b

The destruction of the great Spainish Armada by Francis Drake and another commander makes England the worlds greatest sea power

Nov 12, 1588

http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/News/Spanish_Armada.htm

Jamestown in Virginia is established by English

Nov 12, 1607

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_jamestwn_1.html

Galileo builds the first telescope

Nov 12, 1609

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/galtele.html

summary

Nov 14, 2012

I chose the events I did because I feel they changed history the most. Overall, the different innovations and discoveries mentioned contribute not only to the subject of exploration itself, but to how people see the world and how they were able to move forward. If any of these events had not happened, the course of history could very well be altered significantly. Many of the ideas also closely identify with the age of exploration and the Renaissance's ideologies, that allowed it to be such a pr