Key+dates

=__Key dates of the Age of exploration__=


 * 1420: Portugal began sending fleets southward along the western coast of africa.**


 * 1488: Batholomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope.**


 * 1492: Christopher Columbus discovers America.**


 * 1494: the Treaty of Tordesillas is signed.**
 * 1497: John Cabot & Amerigo Vespucci travel & explore America.**


 * 1498: Vasco da Gama arrived off the port of Calicut and got lots of spices.**
 * 1500: Pedro Cabral lands in South America.**


 * 1509: A Portuguese fleet of warships defeated a combined fleet of Turkish and Indian Ships off the coast of India.**


 * 1511: The Portuguese seized Melaka and soon occupied the Moluccas.**


 * 1518: A spanish ship carried the first boatload of slaves from Africa to the Americas.**
 * 1519: Spanish begin Conquest of Mexico.**


 * 1520: Magellan sails into the Pacific Ocean.**


 * 1550: Spain gains control of northern Mexico.**


 * 1595: The first Dutch fleet arrives in India.**


 * 1619: Dutch establish a fort at Batavia (present day Jakarta).**