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Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation. In this school people were trained in navagation, Map making, And science, in order to sail down west of africa.
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Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa. By opening a sea route between the continents.
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Christopher Columbus landed on a small island called san salvador.
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The fleet arrived in Kappadu near Calicut India on 20 May 1498
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The treaty of Tordesillas is signed in what is now the Valladolid province in Spain. It divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
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Ferdinand Megellan arrives in the Philippines when he landed on the island of Cebu He was mean to some people but was still killed by a chief named Lapu-Lapu.
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An expidition led by Miguel Lopez de Legaspi arrived. A settlement was set up in 1565 on the island of Cebu.
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The Dutch establish a trading center on Java in 1602
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In order to create trade between India and France, the East India Company was set up to compete with previously established British and Dutch companies.
