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Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Ages
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Period: Oct 31, 1451 to May 20, 1506
Live of Christopher Columbus
He borns the 31 October 1451, in Genoa, Italy. -
Apr 17, 1476
Capitulations of Santa Fe
A contract that stabilises the conditions of Columbus' trip and the distribution of charges and goods. -
Sep 4, 1479
Treaty of Alcaçovas-Toledo
The Treaty agreed:
- Peace between the Kingdom of Portugal and the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and the end to hostilities after the War of Castilian Succession.
- Alfonso V resigned the throne of Castile and Isabel and Ferdinand renounced the throne of Portugal.
- Assigned the territories: Portugal was left with the territories that were in the south and Castile with all that was in the north.
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1487
Bartolomeu Dias Expedition
His journey was continued by Vasco da Gama a decade later. -
Period: 1487 to 1488
Duration of Bartolomeu Dias Expedition
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1492
Chirstopher Columbus' first voyage
(The red one)
Columbus arrived in several Caribbean islands: San Salvador, Juana and La Española.
In La Española crashed his best ship, the "Santa Maria", and with his wood was built "Christmas". Columbus returned to Spain in the "La Niña" caravel. -
Period: 1492 to 1493
Duration of Columbus' first voyage
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Period: 1492 to
Early Modern period
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1493
Christopher Columbus' second voyage
(The green one)
On this trip, they reached the coasts of the Caribbean discovering several islands of the archipelago of the Lesser Antilles.
He Returned to La Española and very close founded his first city to which he named as La Isabela. -
Period: 1493 to 1492
Duration of Columbus' second voyage
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the afresh discovered lands outside Europe among the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along with a meridian 370 leagues. This line of division was about midway between the Cape Verde islands and the islands entered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage. -
1497
Vasco da Gama Expedition
Was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. -
Period: 1497 to 1499
Duration of Vasco da Gama
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1498
Christopher Columbus' third voyage
(The blue one)
On this trip, Columbus discovered the Trinidad Island and the mouth of the Orinoco River in Tierra de Gracia (current north of Venezuela).
Returned to La Española where he was taken prisoner by the complaints of the Spaniards who were unhappy with his command. He returned chained to Spain, where queen Elizabeth liberated him. -
Period: 1498 to 1500
Duration of Columbus' third voyage
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1502
Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage
(The yellow one)
On this trip, Columbus discovered some islands in the Greater Antilles. These are the current countries of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; As well as some small islands like the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. -
Period: 1502 to 1504
Duration of Columbus' fourth voyage
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May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus' death
Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain; at 55 years of life, as a result of a cardiac delay caused by Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis). -
1519
Armada de Molucca
The Armada de Molucca was the name of the Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano in the first expedition to sail to the Spice Islands from Europe and the first world circumnavigation. -
Period: 1519 to 1522
Duration of the Armada de Molucca
