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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry
Prince Henry was an infante of the kingdom of portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire. He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents.
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Jan 1, 1451
Bartolomeu Dias
Batolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
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Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Christopher was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola,
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Mar 9, 1454
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
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Jan 1, 1460
Vascoe de Gama
Vascoe de Gama was an explorer, one of the most successful in the age of discovery. he was also the commander of the fisrt ships to ever sail from Europe to India.
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Jan 1, 1470
Fransisco Pizzaro
On 10 November 1509, Pizarro sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonzo de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabí. He sailed to Cartagena and joined the fleet of Martin Fernández de Encíso, and, in 1513, accompanied Balboa to the Pacific.
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Jan 1, 1474
Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. He is associated with the legend of the Fountain of Youth, reputed to be in Florida.
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Jan 1, 1475
Vascoe nunez de Balboa
Vascoe Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is most well known for crossing the isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Becoming the first European to lead an expidition to reach or see the Pacific form the new world.
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Jan 1, 1480
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia).
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Jan 1, 1485
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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