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1001 | Leif Ericson explores North America |
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1265 | Marco Polo begins his exploration of China and Asia |
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1432 | :Portuguese navigators discovered the Azores |
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1445 | Dinis Dias sails the west coast of Africa |
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1456 | :Cape Verde islands are explored by Portuguese |
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1470 | Portuguese begin African exploration |
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1488 | :Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal sails from the Iberian Peninsula to the south of Africa. |
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1492 | :The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus |
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1497 | :John Cabot and his son Sebastian discover Canada, landing on the coast of Newfoundland |
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1498 | :Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India |
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1499 | :Alonzo de Ojeda explores Columbia and Venezuela |
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1500 | : Vicente Pinzon and Juan Dias de Solis discover Brazil |
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1501 | : Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America |
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1500 | : Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa discover Panama |
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1508 | : Juan Dias de Solis explores Argentina |
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1513 | Vasco Nunez de Balboa explores the Pacific coast of Panama and discovers Pacific Ocean Juan Ponce de Leon explores Florida |
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1516 | :Juan Dias de Solis explores Uruguay |
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1517 | :Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba explores Yucatan |
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1518 | :Juan de Grijalava explores Mexico |
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1519 | Ferdinand Magellan is the first to go around the world
Hernando Cortez kidnaps Aztec Emperor Montezuma and loots the Aztec gold Alonzo de Pineda explores gulf Coast of America |
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1522 | :Gil Gonzales de Avila and Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba explore Nicaragua & Granada |
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1524 | Giovanni Verrazano discovers New York Bay Hernando Cortes explores the Honduras Pedro de Alvarado explores Guatemala and El Salvador |
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1526 | :Francisco Montejo explores Yucatan |
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1528 | Panfilo de Narvaez conquers Cuba and explores Florida Alvar Cabeza de Vaca explores Texas, Arizona and New Mexico |
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1531 | : Francisco Pizarro explores Peru |
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1532 | : Francisco Pizarro invades and loots the Incan Empire |
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1533 | : Sebastian de Benalcazar explores Ecuador |
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1534 | :Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River |
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1536 | :Pedro de Mendoza explores Paraguay |
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1539 | Hernando de Soto explores south-eastern North America |
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1540 | Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America Discovery of the Grand Canyon by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas Francisco de Orellana explores Amazon River |
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1541 | Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores Kansas |
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1542 | Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast Rey Lopez de Villalobos explores the Philippines Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay, California |
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1559 | Tristan de Luna explores North America |
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1562 | John Hawkins sails to Africa |
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1563 | Francisco de Ibarra explores New Mexico |
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1576 | Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait |
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1577 | Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580 |
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1584 | Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe (both in the service of Sir Walter Raleigh) explore the coast of North Carolina |
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1585 | Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the Roanoke colony |
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1593 | Sir Richard Hawkins travels to the South Pacific |
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1595 | Sir Walter Raleigh seeks golden city of El Dorado in South America
Cornelis de Houtman discovers Sea Route to Indonesia |
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1598 | Juan de Archuleta explores Colorado |
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1607 | Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown |
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1609 | Henry Hudson explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America including the Hudson River |
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1642 | Abel Tasman explores Tasmania and New Zealand |
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1652 | Jan van Riebeeck explores Africa and founded Cape Town |
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1768 | Captain James Cook discovers New Zealand |
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1791 | George Vancouver explores Canada |
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1804 | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory |
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1820 | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen becomes the first person to see the Antarctic continent |
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1843 | Dr. David Livingstone explores Africa |
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1897 | Adrien de Gerlache explores Antarctica |
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1912 | Roald Amundsen first on the South Pole followed by Robert F. Scott, Edward Wilson, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates |
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1959 | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first Man in Space |
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1969 | Moon Landing Neil Armstrong commander of the Apollo 11 mission, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin while their team mate Michael Collins controlled the command module Columbia |
