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Explorations and Events of The New World

By hebertp19
  • Prince Henry
    Apr 5, 1419

    Prince Henry

    1. Prince Henry opens a school for navigators, sailors, and cartographers. He also made many expeditions (but did not go on them himself) to sail around Africa from 1420-1460
  • Opening of Prince Henry's Navigation School
    Apr 5, 1419

    Opening of Prince Henry's Navigation School

    1. Prince Henry opens the first school for navigators. His goal was to ge people to travel around the world.
  • Bartolomeu Dias
    Aug 16, 1487

    Bartolomeu Dias

    1487-1488. Dias travels from Portugal to the Cape of Good Hope
  • Christopher Columbus
    Aug 3, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    1492-1493. Christopher Columbus travels from Spain to "The New World" (The Carribean Islands). He also makes 3 other trips to The New World ( 1493-1496, 1498-1500, 1502-?)
  • Discovery of the Americas
    Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of the Americas

    1. Christopher Cloumbus discovers the Americas (specifically the Caribbean islands) for the first time (although he though he reached Asia)
  • Papal Line of Demarcation
    May 4, 1493

    Papal Line of Demarcation

    1. Pope Alexander VI sets a line of Demarcation dividing the non-European world into 2 sections- one for Sain (west) and one for Portugal (east)
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Jun 7, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    1. Helped set the line of Demarcation. Signed by Spain and Portugal
  • Vasco Da Gama
    Jul 16, 1497

    Vasco Da Gama

    1497-1499. Da Gama travels from Portugal to the Indian coast of Calicut (Reaches India May 20th, 1498)
  • Amerigo Vespucci
    Sep 14, 1502

    Amerigo Vespucci

    1. Vespucci travels from Italy to Brazil. He was a cartographer, so he made detailed maps and observations based on what he saw in Brazil. Martin Waldseemüller later renamed the continent after Vespucci, the Americas.
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
    Jun 10, 1510

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

    1510-1513. Balboa travels from the West Indies to the Isthmus of Panama ( first to see the Pacific Ocean)
  • First Crossing of Panama
    Mar 17, 1513

    First Crossing of Panama

    1. Balboa crosses Panama for the first time and sees the Pacific Ocean
  • Hernan Cortes
    Sep 11, 1518

    Hernan Cortes

    1. Cortes travels from Spain to Tenochtitlan (Aztec Empire's Capital, Mexico)
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Sep 20, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    1519-1522. Magellan and his crew are the first people to travel all around the world (circumnavigators). Their goal was to reach the Pacific ocea, and they did that and more.
  • First Circumnavigation Completed
    Apr 27, 1521

    First Circumnavigation Completed

    1. The first circumnavigation around the globe (completed by Magellan's crew members) was completed.
  • Francisco Pizarro
    Jun 19, 1532

    Francisco Pizarro

    1. Pizarro travels from Spain to Peru and claims the Incan empire as Sapin