Europeans Explore The East

By kelseyfrank13
  • Jan 1, 1418

    •Prince Henry starts a navigation school

    •Prince Henry starts a navigation school
    Prince Henry started a school that taught the skills of map making and sailing . It is somewhere in Portugal though the precise location is unknown .
  • Feb 2, 1488

    •Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa

    •Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
    Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
    Dias' ships rounded the perilous Cape of Good Hope and then sailed around Africa's southernmost point,
  • Oct 2, 1492

    •Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean

    •Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
    Christopher Columbus made landfall on a small island in the Caribbean. His historic voyage ignited the age of exploration and cross-Atlantic expansion by European settlers
  • Jun 7, 1494

    •Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

    •Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
    divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa).
  • May 20, 1498

    •Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean

    •Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
    Vasco da Gama arrived to the port of Calicut. The King of Calicut, the Samudiri (Zamorin) welcomed Vasco and his troops. Vasco, to show his gratitude, gave Zamorin four cloaks of scarlet cloth, six hats, four branches of corals, twelve almasares, a box with seven brass vessels, a chest of sugar, two barrels of oil and a cask of honey in exhange to set up a merchant port. He was denied.
  • Feb 2, 1519

    •Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines

    •Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
    Magellan's expedition became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean
  • Feb 13, 1565

    •Spain begins settlements in the Philippines

    •Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
    Spanish colonization and settlement began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition; who established the first permanent settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu

  • •The Dutch establish a trading center on Java.

    •The Dutch establish a trading center on Java.
    The Dutch recognized potential in the East Indies spice trade so the Dutch Government combined the competing merchant companies into the United East India Company.

  • •France sets up its own East India Company

    •France sets up its own East India Company
    was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in colonial India.