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The site was first discovered in 1929 and then re-discovered in 1986. ... European traders who reached China in the midst of the Age of Discovery were repeatedly ...
He then led a voyage into the Red Sea, the first ever made by a European fleet. 1513: Jorge Álvares is the first European to land in China at Tamão in the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary. 1516–1517: Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, leads a small Portuguese trade mission to Canton (Guangzhou), then under the Ming Dynasty.
Gavin Menzies, known for claiming that Chinese explorers discovered America in the 15th century; Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories#Claims of Chinese contact; List of China-related topics; Arcadio Huang, a 17th-century Chinese visitor to Europe; Fan Shouyi, an 18th-century Chinese visitor to Europe
Europeans in Medieval China: Franciscan friars first conducted missionary work in China. 1294: 18 February: Kublai died. 10 May: Kublai's grandson Temür Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty. 1293: John of Montecorvino arrives in China and is appointed Archbishop of Khanbaliq (Beijing). 1298: Wang Zhen invented movable wooden type.
He was best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that the same fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan.
1513 – Jorge Álvares becomes the first European to reach China by sea, landing on Nei Lingding Island at the Pearl River Delta. [1] 1513 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and reaches the Bay of San Miguel, reaching the "Mar del Sur" (Pacific Ocean). [2] 1513 – Juan Ponce de León explores "La Florida" and the Yucatán.
In his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, British author Gavin Menzies claimed that the treasure fleets of Ming admiral Zheng He arrived in America in 1421. [69] Professional historians contend that Zheng He reached the eastern coast of Africa, and dismiss Menzies's hypothesis as entirely without proof. [70] [71] [72] [73]
The Portuguese sailed further eastward, to the valuable Spice Islands in 1512, landing in China one year later. Japan was reached by the Portuguese in 1543. In 1513, Spanish Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached the "other sea" from the New World. Thus, Europe first received news of the eastern and western Pacific ...