skowneski

By mikekroepel
  • Feb 1, 1418

    Prince Henry starts a navigation school

    started the first school for oceanic navigation in Sagres, Portrugal.
  • Feb 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa

    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.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean

    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.
  • Feb 1, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

    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.
  • May 20, 1498

    Vasco Da Gama reaches the Port of Calicut

    Vasco Da Gama reaches the Port of Calicut
    da Gama and his fleet arrive near Calicut, India where the King of Calicut offered his hospitality to de Gama.
  • Feb 1, 1521

    Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines

    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.
  • Feb 1, 1565

    Spain begins settlements in the Philippines

    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.

  • Dutch establish a trading center on Java

    The dutch found the Dutch East India Center

  • France sets up its own East India Company

    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.