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Ptolemy creates the first flat map of the world.
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Náttfari becomes the first permanent resident of Iceland.
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Eric the Red discovers Greenland.
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Marco Polo goes to China.
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João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discover Porto Santo.
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Gil passes Cabo de Não and rounds Cape Bojador.
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Columbus sails to the New World.
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Vasco da Gama sails to India and back.
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Amerigo Vespucci returns from his explorations of the New World. American continents named after him by German mapmaker.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
