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Leif Ericson was the first European to land in North America. He discovered Vinland (Newfoundland) in the year 1003.
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Colubus wanted to fine a faster sea route to India so he sailed west to go wast and ended up finding America.
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Upon returning to Spain in 1493 after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus contacted Pope Alexander VI (a Spaniard by birth) to report his discoveries.
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Columbus left from Cádiz in Spain for his second voyage (1493-1496) on September 24, 1493, with 17 ships and about 1200 men. His aim was to conquer the Taíno tribe and colonise the region
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Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast
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he goal behind the 3rd journey was bring supplies for the settlement and explore further south. It was May 30, 1498 when Christopher Columbus went from Spain, this time from the port of Sanlucar, with 6 ships.
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Magellan wanted to sail west to go east, he thought that if the world was round then he would be able to get east faster by going west. Magellan got killed in the Phillipines, but his crew made it all around the world.
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He sailed from Amsterdam March 25, 1609, and doubled the North Cape in about a month. His object was to pass through the Vaygats, or perhaps to the north of Nova Zembla, and thus reach China by the northeast passage
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In 1519 a German priest, Martin Luther, was distributing his pamphet explaining his conflict with the Vatican. I
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The origins of the astrolabe were in classical Greece. Apollonius (ca. 225 BC), the great codifier of conic sections, probably studied the astrolabe projection.
