Journey to New World

By Sherm90
  • Period: 1385 to 1433

    King John I of Portugal

  • Period: 1391 to 1438

    King Edward of Portugal

  • Period: 1394 to 1460

    Prince Henry the Navigator

  • Period: 1432 to 1481

    King Afonso V of Portugal

  • Period: 1450 to 1500

    Bartholomew Dias

  • Period: 1451 to 1506

    Christopher Columbus

  • Period: 1452 to 1486

    Diogo Cao

  • Period: 1455 to 1495

    King John II of Portugal

  • Period: 1460 to 1524

    Vasco Da Gama

  • Sep 19, 1462

    Antonio de Noli discovers Cape Verde Islands

    Diogo Dias, Diogo Afonso and Alvise Cadamosto also were involved with the discovery
  • Oct 19, 1469

    Marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand

  • Period: 1475 to 1479

    War of the Castilian Succession

    The military conflict contested from 1475 to 1479 for the succession of the Crown of Castile fought between the supporters of Joanna 'la Beltraneja', reputed daughter of the late monarch Henry IV of Castile, and those of Henry's half-sister, Isabella, who was ultimately successful.
  • 1478

    Bartholomew Dias trades Ivory on West African Coast

  • 1480

    (Treaty) Treaty of Alcáçovas: Portugal has monopoly on W. Africa

  • 1481

    Diogo de Azambuja constructs fort/trade post in Gulf of Guniea

    Bartholomew Dias is part of the expedition
  • 1482

    Mouth of Congo Discovered by D. Cao

  • Period: 1482 to 1484

    Diogo Cao's 1st Expedition to Congo River

    Barth. Dias may have been part of this.
  • 1483

    First contact with Kingdom Kongo

  • 1484

    Cao reaches coast of Angola

  • Period: 1484 to 1486

    2nd Voyage of Cao to Kongo

  • Apr 8, 1484

    Cao returns to Portugal

  • 1486

    D. Cao dies at Cape Cross, Namibia

  • 1487

    King John II dispatches Covilhã and Paiva to spy on Venetian spice trade

    They would travel to the middle east
  • Period: 1487 to 1488

    Dias voyage around the Cape

  • Dec 8, 1487

    B. Dias passes furthest point in Africa

    D. Cao had died there just a year before
  • 1488

    Dias returns to Portugal

  • Feb 4, 1488

    B. Dias passes Cape of G. Hope

  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus leaves for Canary Islands

  • Oct 6, 1492

    Columbus leaves Canary Islands to New World

  • Oct 11, 1492

    Columbus spots first land in Americas (Bahamas)

  • Period: 1497 to 1499

    1st India Expedition by Da Gama

  • Apr 14, 1498

    Da Gama reaches Mombassa

  • May 20, 1498

    Da Gama reaches Calcutta, India