European explre The east

By peter07g
  • Jan 31, 1418

    prince henery starts a navigation school

    Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal. In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa.
  • Feb 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa

    Dias was a Knight of the royal court. King John II of Portugal appointed him to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India.
  • Feb 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
    Columbus led a total of four expeditions to the New World, discovering various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central American mainlands.
  • Jan 31, 1494

    • Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

    Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, in which they agreed to divide the Western Hemisphere between them. New discovered lands to the west of the imaginary line belongs to spain. while The newly discovered land on the east of the imaginary line belongs to portugal.
  • Feb 1, 1521

    • Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines

    On 1521, Magellan's expedition landed on Homonhon island in the Philippines. He was the first European to reach the islands. Rajah Humabon of Cebu was friendly with Magellan and embraced Christianity, but their enemy, Lapu-Lapu was not.
  • Jan 31, 1571

    • Spain begins settlements in the Philippines

    • Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
    The expedition continued northward reaching the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon on June 24, 1571, where they established a new town and thus began an era of Spanish colonization that lasted for more than three centuries

  • The Dutch establish a trading center on Java

    The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing an overseas colonial empire, but based on military conquest of already-existing Portuguese and Spanish settlements, and not on discovery and colonisation

  • • France sets up its own East India Company

    it was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in colonial India.