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Great Geographical Discoveries - Dates

Flashcards for quick repetition. Do you know the dates of great geographical discoveries in history? Answer all questions and test your knowledge.
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Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press
1494
1455
1486 (1487-1488)
1450
1450
The Gutenberg Bible was printed
1500
1498-1507
1455
1492
1455
Bartolomeu Dias reached Cape Good Hope
1486 (1487-1488)
1507
1492
1497
1486 (1487-1488)
Christopher Columbus reached the Haiti and Cuba islands / establishment of the Spanish colony-Navidad
1492
1519-1522
1500
1498-1507
1492
Treaty of Tordesillas ( Portuguese and Spaniards)
1494
1498-1507
1513
1494
Vasco da Gama reached India by sea
1455
1486 (1487-1488)
1497
1486 (1487-1488)
1497
Amerigo Vespucci's expedition to the New World; draws a map of South America
1494
1519-1522
1498-1507
1507
1498-1507
The new continent was named America
1507
1497
1492
1500
1507
Vasco de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama
1507
1513
1543
1455
1513
Fernando Magellan's expedition around the world; he died at the Philippines; completed by Del Kano-Magellan's assistant
1486 (1487-1488)
1498-1507
1455
1519-1522
1519-1522
Copernicus' On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies was published
1543
1500
1513
1543
Martin Behaim invents the first globe, called Erdapfel ( DE-earth apple)
1497
1493
1507
1492
1492
Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral became the first European to enter Brazil
1513
1494
1500
1498-1507
1500
Beginning of Christian colonisation of the newly found lands
1493
1455
1519-1522
1507
1493

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