European Explorers on the East

By brandondawkins
  • Prince Henry Set up Navigation Schools
    Feb 1, 1418

    Prince Henry Set up Navigation Schools

    The students were trained in science,navigation,map-making but they had to know this in order to sail the west of africa
  • Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
    Feb 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa

    A quote by him is"to serve god and his Majesty, to give light to those that are darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do. The first Portuguese sailor to try to reach Asia, but encountered a heavy storm and turned back.
  • Nov 29, 1492

    Spanish monarchs sea route

    Christopher Columbus convinced Spain to a finance
  • Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
    Sep 15, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

    A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain.This declared the newly discovered lands to west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to spain
  • Vasco Da Gama
    Sep 15, 1502

    Vasco Da Gama

    Portuguese explorer who began exploring in 1498 and later reached Cailcut
  • Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
    Sep 15, 1521

    Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines

    Ferdinand Magellan with his crew were the first people sail around the world
  • The dutch establish a trading center o Java

    The dutch establish a trading center o Java

    They had to carry out colonial activities in Asia. This company was founded by the dutch in the early 17th century

  • France sets up its own East India company

    The spice trade was dominated by the Portuguese who used libson as a staple port
  • Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus

    First European to reach the new world