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Swedish Viking Garðar Svavarsson circumnavigates Iceland.
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Náttfari becomes the first permanent resident of Iceland.
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Ingólfur Arnarson builds his homestead in present-day Reykjavík.
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Eric the Red discovers Greenland.
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Leif Ericson discovers North America.
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Marco Polo goes to China.Marco went to china through the silk route he went to trade gun powder for paper,spices & silk
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João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discover Porto Santo
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Gonçalves and Vaz discover Madeira
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Diogo de Silves discovers the Azores.
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Gil Eanes passes Cabo de Não and rounds Cape Bojador.
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Nuno Tristão passes Cape Blanco
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Dinis Dias reaches the mouth of the Senegal River.
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The Portuguese reach Cape Verde and the Gambia River.
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Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors.
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Turkish Empire cuts off the land route for spices from Asia to Europe. Search for sea route begins.
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Alvise Cadamosto and Diogo Gomes explored the Cape Verde Islands