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Period: Jan 31, 1417 to
timespan
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Jan 31, 1418
Prince Henry starts a navigation school
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Feb 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
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Feb 1, 1493
Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
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Feb 1, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
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Jan 31, 1500
• The Dutch establish a trading center on Java
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Jan 31, 1502
Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
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Feb 1, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
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France sets up its own East India Company