Tema 6 : modern ages

  • 1440

    Gutenberg invents the printing press

  • 1488

    Bartolomé Díaz arrived in southern Africa

  • 1492

    Capitulations of Santa Fe

  • 1492

    Conquest of Granada

  • Mar 8, 1492

    Columbus sets sail from the port of Palos de la Frontera

    Santa María, La niña y La Pinta
  • Dec 10, 1492

    Colon comes to America

    Isla del caribe llamada Guanahaní (actual Bahamas)
  • 1498

    Vasco de Gama reached India

  • 1504

    Hernán Cortés left for the Indies

  • 1506

    Christopher Colón dies

  • 1512

    Conquest of Navarra

  • 1513

    Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean

  • 1516

    Carlos V Reign

  • 1519

    .Hernán Cortés will start an expedition to conquer the Aztec empire

  • 1519

    Magellan and elcano give the first complete round the world

  • 1521

    Montezuma thought that the white gods were from heaven.

  • 1533

    Pizarro with 168 men will conquer an army of 40,000 soldiers

  • 1545

    Trento council

  • 1556

    Philip II's reign