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May 4, 1418
Prince Henry started a Navigation School
In this school that Prince Henry created for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa. -
Feb 1, 1488
Bartolomeau Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeau Dias led the first European epedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope. On a later expidition Dias sailed near South America on his way to Africa, he spotted land at Espírito Santo in Brazil, calling it the "Land of the True Cross." -
Feb 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus reached the Caribean
Christopher Columbus went the the Caribean on accident. He was sailing to get to India for trade. -
Apr 3, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was made to settle a dispute about who gets what land when it is discovered. They made an invisable line in the atlantic ocean and on one side all the land that was discovered went to portugal and on the other side it went to spain. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco Da Gama reached the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
Vasco Da Gama sailed through the Cape of Good Hope trying to get to Calicut on the Indian Ocean for spice trade, this took 4 months. On his wya there he discovered many new routes -
Mar 16, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan was trying to get to Asia to get spices. He accidetally landed in the Philippines. Spain eventually sent more explorers there. -
Feb 3, 1565
Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the philippines in 1564. he claimed it for spain but it was officially established until 1565. -
Dutch established a trading center on Java
The dutch established a trading center which was a chartered company. It was the second most multinational corperation. -
France sets up its own East India Company
The French east India company was a commercial compromise.