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August 1 – Columbus discovers the mouth of the Orinoco. August 4 – 12 – Columbus explores the Gulf of Paria. On August 5 he lands on the Paria Peninsula, [2] the first definitely recorded landing of Europeans on the mainland Americas. September 20 – 1498 Nankai earthquake off the coast of Japan.
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The 1498 Meiō earthquake (明応地震 Meiō Jishin) occurred off the...
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Events. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane...
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- Christopher Columbus and The Age of Discovery
- Early Life and Nationality
- Christopher Columbus' First Voyage
- Where Did Columbus' Ships, Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria, Land?
- Christopher Columbus's Later Voyages
- Legacy of Christopher Columbus
During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands. The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery,” also known as “Age of Exploration.” Starting in about 1420, small Portuguese ships known as car...
Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant, is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. When he was still a teenager, he got a job on a merchant ship. He remained at sea until 1476, when pirates attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank, but the young Columbus floated to shore on a scrap of woo...
At the end of the 15th century, it was nearly impossible to reach Asia from Europe by land. The route was long and arduous, and encounters with hostile armies were difficult to avoid. Portuguese explorers solved this problem by taking to the sea: They sailed south along the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. But Columbus had a dif...
On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in the East Indies, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the Bahamian islands, likely San Salvador. For months, Columbus sailed from island to island in what we now know as the Caribbean, loo...
About six months later, in September 1493, Columbus returned to the Americas. He found the Hispaniola settlementdestroyed and left his brothers Bartolomeo and Diego Columbus behind to rebuild, along with part of his ships’ crew and hundreds of enslaved indigenous people. Then he headed west to continue his mostly fruitless search for goldand other ...
Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas, nor was he even the first European to visit the “New World.” (Viking explorer Leif Eriksonhad sailed to Greenland and Newfoundland in the 11th century.) However, his journey kicked off centuries of exploration and exploitation on the American continents. The Columbian Exchange transferred people...
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1492, 1493, 1498 & 1502: Location: The Americas: Participants: Christopher Columbus and Castilian crew (among others) Outcome: European discovery and colonization of the Americas
Dec 23, 2016 · Events in 1498 20 May - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India, becoming the first European to reach India by sea 21 June - Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by ...
The Madonna della Pietà ( Italian: [pjeˈta]; 1498–1499), informally known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
