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started the first school for oceanic navigation in Sagres, Portrugal.
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Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening a sea route between the continents. He did this by rounding the southern tip of Africa called the Cape of Good Hope.
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Christopher Coloumbus landed first in the Bahammas and later explored most of the Carribean and the coasts of Central and South America. This led to his quick recognition to being the first European to reach the Americas, but today this is seen as being untrue.
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The treaty of Tordesillas is signed in what is now the Valladolid province located in Spain. It divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal located outside of Europe.
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da Gama and his fleet arrive near Calicut, India where the King of Calicut offered his hospitality to de Gama.
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Ferdinand Megellan arrives in the Philippines in 1521 when he landed on the island of Cebu and claimed the island for Spain. He befriended some of the citizens, but was still killed by a local chief named Lapu-Lapu, who was agaist foreign domination.
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Although Magellan arrived in 1521, true colonization did not start until 1564 when another 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 found the Dutch East India Center
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The French East india Company was set up to comete with the other British and Dutch companies already set up in colonial India. It's purpose was to create trade between India and France.
