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Feb 1, 1418
Prince Henry starts a navigation school
In this school students were trained in Navagation and Map-Making. Students were also trained in science. Lastly they needed to learn all this in order to sail down the West of Africa. -
Feb 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
A quote by him is "To serve God and his magesty, to give light to those that are in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do. The first Portugese sailor to try to reach Asia, but encountered a heavy storm and turned back. -
Feb 1, 1492
Christopher Colombus reaches the Carribean
First European to reach the New Worlds. He also found seven continents in 1492. -
Feb 1, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain. This declared that newly discovered lands to west of an imaginery line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to spain. -
Feb 1, 1502
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
Portugese explorer who began exploring in 1498 and later reached calicut. -
Feb 1, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philipines
Ferdinand Magellan with his crew were the first people sail around the world. -
Feb 1, 1565
Spain begins settlements in the Philipines
They arrived in Guam and the Phillipines Islands establishing the spanish east Indies. -
The Dutch established a trading center on Java
They had to carry out colional activites 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 Portugese who used lisbon as a staple port.
