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Jan 27, 1415
Henry the Navigator and his school for sailors
15th century Portuguese prince, helped usher in the Atlantic slave trade. Credited with the beginning of the Age of discovery. Made the first school for sailors. -
Jan 27, 1453
Turkish Empire cuts off land route from Europe to Asia
built boats to get to asia -
Jan 27, 1460
Francisco Pizzaro
led and expedition that conquered the Inca empire, he captured and killed the incan empire. -
Jan 27, 1488
Bartholomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer, sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa opening the the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia -
Jan 27, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic ocean. -
Jan 27, 1497
John Cabot
Genoese navigator, and explorer made a British claim to land n Canada mistaking it for asia -
Jan 27, 1508
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian explorer, financier, navigator, the Americas came from his name -
Jan 27, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Spansih explorer, known for having crossed the isthmus of panama to the pacific ocean -
Jan 27, 1513
Juan Ponce De Leon
First governor of Puerto Rico, led first european expedition to la florida -
Jan 27, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Organized the Spanish expedition to the east indies -
Jan 27, 1530
Hernandez Cortez
led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire -
Jan 27, 1530
Hernando de Soto
led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the united states, first documented European to cross the Mississippi river -
Jan 27, 1540
Francisco Coronado
led a large expedition from mexico to present day kansas -
Jan 27, 1541
Jacques Cartier
Claimed what is now Canada for france -
Jan 27, 1577
Sir Francis Drake
carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition -
Sir Walter Raleigh
established colony what is now north Carolina, -
Luois Jolliet
first non natives to explore and map the Mississippi river -
Jacques Marquette
founded Michigan's first European settlement, and one of the first Europeans to explore the northern parts of the Mississippi river -
Rene-Robert de La Salle
he explored the great lakes region of the U.S and Canada, Mississippi river and gulf of mexico, claimed the whole Mississippi river basin for france
