Europe expands east

  • Sep 13, 1419

    1419

    Prince Henry founds navigation school for Portugal
  • Sep 14, 1488

    1488

    Bartolomeu Dias got passed the cape of good hope
  • Sep 14, 1497

    1497

    Vasco da Gama started exploring the east coast of Africa
  • Sep 15, 1498

    1498

    Vasco da Gama reaches the port of calicut
  • Sep 15, 1499

    1499

    Vasco da Gama returned to Portugal with spices
  • Sep 15, 1509

    1509

    Portugal makes a massive trading Empire in the Indian ocean and took control of Muslim spice trading posts and ships with the help of cannons
  • Sep 15, 1510

    1510

    Portugal takes control of Goa and makes it the capital of their trading empire
  • Sep 15, 1514

    1514

    Portugal strengthens its hold on trade by building a fort in Hormuz
  • Sep 15, 1521

    1521

    Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philippines and claimed the islands and kept moving on in their expeditions
  • 1619

    The new independent Dutch nation builds trading headquarters at Batavia in Java an island in the East Indies