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Aug 6, 1492
Beginning of the voyage to the 'New World'
Queen Isabelle and King Ferdinand let 3 ships(Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria) for Christopher Columbus. Columbus departed from Castilian Palos de la Frontera with three ships(Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria). Christopher failed to find the real india, but it let europeans to go America. -
May 14, 1501
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian explorer who explored South America on his 3rd voyage. Vespucci set sail for Cape Verde—this time in service to King Manuel I of Portugal. Vespucci's third voyage is largely considered his most successful. Believing he had discovered a new continent, in a letter to Florence, Vespucci called South America the New World. America is name after him. -
Sep 20, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer who discovered Philippine.
Born into a wealthy Portuguese family in around 1480, Magellan became a skilled sailor
Magellan himself was killed in battle on the voyage.
He "proved" that the world is circle and bigger than imagine before. -
Mar 10, 1526
Francisco Pizzaro
Born in Trujillo, Spain.
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 Martín Fernández de Enciso, and, in 1513, accompanied Balboa to the Pacific. Pizarro founded the nation's new capital, Lima. -
Apr 20, 1534
Jacques Cartier
French navigator Jacques Cartier was born on December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France. Cartier was to search for gold and other riches, spices, and a passage to Asia. Cartier sailed with two ships and 61 men, and arrived 20 days later. He explored the west coast of Newfoundland, discovered Prince Edward Island and sailed through the Gulf of St.Lawrence, past Anticosti Island. Canada is named after him. -
Jan 16, 1556
Charles V resigned
Charles V resigned Spain and Spainish American to Philip. He also abdicated from Holy Roman Empire and he resigned his emperors to his brother. The reason why he resigned early is because he thought he couldn't handle all the emperor that he had. One of main cause was reformation movement in German. After he resigned the spain to philip, the hapsburg dynasty split in Spain and Netherlands. -
Period: Aug 23, 1572 to Aug 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against Huguenots(French Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. It killed 5000 to 30000 people -
Sir Walter Raleigh discover Guidana
After he discover Guidana he wrote a book named The Discovery of Guiana ,wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan region of Guayana. He also visited Trinidad.
He is a gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. -
1607-1608 voyage
Henry Hudson sailed on 1 May with a crew of ten men and a boy on the 80-ton Hopewell. He sailed to Greenland, They entered the "Whales Bay", which is now become hudson bay. -
Founded the Quebec
Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence River in the company of 26. He settled along Quebec's shoreline. It soon became a meeting place where various Amerindians came to barter furs for European goods. -
Jacques Marquette
Frenchman Jacques Marquette became an explorer in the mid-1600s, not only because of his interest in travel and discovery of new lands, but also because of his religion. He traveled to Quebec, Canada, where he demonstrated his penchant for learning indigenous languages: Marquette learned to converse fluently in six different Native American dialects and became an expert in the Huron language. He wanted to spread religion, founded Northen Michigan. -
Glorious Revolution
A group of seven protestant nobles invited the Prince of Orange to come to England with an army. It directly affected to James II to flee. He was tried to flee to France, but he captured by Kent.
