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Great Geographical Discoveries - Dates
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Question 1
Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press
1450
Question 2
The Gutenberg Bible was printed
1455
Question 3
Bartolomeu Dias reached Cape Good Hope
1486 (1487-1488)
Question 4
Christopher Columbus reached the Haiti and Cuba islands / establishment of the Spanish colony-Navidad
1492
Question 5
Treaty of Tordesillas ( Portuguese and Spaniards)
1494
Question 6
Vasco da Gama reached India by sea
1497
Question 7
Amerigo Vespucci's expedition to the New World; draws a map of South America
1498-1507
Question 8
The new continent was named America
1507
Question 9
Vasco de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama
1513
Question 10
Fernando Magellan's expedition around the world; he died at the Philippines; completed by Del Kano-Magellan's assistant
1519-1522
Question 11
Copernicus' On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies was published
1543
Question 12
Martin Behaim invents the first globe, called Erdapfel ( DE-earth apple)
1492
Question 13
Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral became the first European to enter Brazil
1500
Question 14
Beginning of Christian colonisation of the newly found lands
1493