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Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454
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According to a letter that Amerigo Vespucci may have wrote, on May 10, 1497, he went on his first journey, from Cadiz with a fleet of Spanish ships. The letter indicates that the ships sailed through the West Indies and made their way to the mainland of Central America within approximately five weeks.
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Amerigo Vespucci died on February 22, 1512.