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