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