social studies 1

  • prince henry started a navigation school
    Feb 6, 1418

    prince henry started a navigation school

    About 1418, Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal. In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa
  • Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
    Feb 6, 1486

    Bartolomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa

    Bartolomeu Dias was a Portugese navigator whose 1487-88 Atlantic voyage around the southern tip of Africa opened sea routes between Europe and Asia
  • Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean
    Feb 6, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean

    Christopher and everyone else believed that if they went west that they would get to asia. little did he know that he had descovered new land.
  • Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
    Feb 6, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

    In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, in which they agreed to divide the Western Hemisphere between them
  • •	Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean
    Feb 6, 1497

    • Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut on the Indian Ocean

    On Wednesday (November 8) we cast anchor in this bay, and we remained there eight days, cleaning the ships, mending the sails, and taking in wood. The river Samtiagua (S. Thiago) enters the bay four leagues to the S.E. of the anchorage. It comes from the interior (sertao), is about a stone's throw across at the mouth, and from two to three fathoms in depth at all states of the tide --Vasco da Gama
  • Spain begins settlements in the Philippines
    Feb 6, 1521

    Spain begins settlements in the Philippines

    Spanish colonization and settlement began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition on February 13, 1565 who established the first permanent settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu.The expedition continued northward reaching the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon on June 24, 1571,where they established a new town and thus began an era of Spanish colonization that lasted for more than three centuries
  • •	Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines
    Feb 7, 1521

    • Ferdinand Magellan leads a Spanish expedition to the Philippines

    Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese in the service of the Spanish crown, was looking for a westward route to the to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. On March 16, 1521, Magellan's expedition landed on Homonhon island in the Philippines. He was the first European to reach the islands
  • •	The Dutch establish a trading center on Java

    • The Dutch establish a trading center on Java

    It may have been the first megacorporation,ti have quasi-governmental power, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts,negotiate treaties, coin money, and establish colonies
  • France sets up its own East India Company

    France sets up its own East India Company

    The first state-sponsored French voyage to the Indies happened in 1603, a voyage by Paulmier de Gonneville of Honfleur. French king Henry IV directed the first Compagnie des Indes Orientales, granting the firm a 15-year monopoly of the Indies trade.] This precursor to Colbert's later Compagnie des Indes Orientales.