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Princo Henry the navigator starts a school for sailing in Portugal. This is important because it showed people how to navigate the ocean. This saved many lives.
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Bartolomeu Dias successfully sails around the Southern tip of Africa.
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Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World.
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Vasco Nunez De Leon takes over Puerto Rico for the Spanish.
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Ferdinand Magellan begins a voyage around the world.
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King Francis I of France hires Giovanni de Verrazanoto search for the Northwest Passage
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Jacques Cartier makes his first voyage to North America.
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Spain established New Spain with its capital at Mexico CIty.
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Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi RIver.
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La Salle reaches the Gulf of Mexico by sailing down the Mississippi River.
