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1421 ( MCDXXI ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1421st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 421st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 15th century, and the 2nd year of the 1420s decade.
In 1421, Gavin Menzies challenged these routes, claiming that Zheng He's fleet actually travelled all over the world, visiting the Americas, the Caribbean, Greenland, the Pacific, and Australia, establishing colonies, and eventually circumnavigating the globe.
Gavin Menzies, a former British Royal Navy officer, argues in the bestseller 1421: The Year China Discovered America, that squadrons from Zheng He's fleets, between 1421 and 1423, did indeed get...
For Menzies declares that between 1421 and 1423, fleets of huge Chinese ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope, reached North and South America, circumnavigated the globe and landed in Australia.
In the manuscript, the annals are preceded by a computus table and accompany a calendar that extends from 152 BC until AD 1421. The annals take a special interest in the counts of Anjou. Much of their information may have come from the priory of the Blessed Saviour at L'Évière, a suburb of Angers.
This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 1421 by country (5 C, 1 P)
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