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Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.
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.
A prime goal for explorers was to locate the source of the River Nile. Expeditions by Burton and Speke (1857–1858) and Speke and Grant (1863) located Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. It was eventually proved to be the latter from which the Nile flowed. Explorers were also active in other parts of the continent.
Chronology of European exploration of Asia (330 BCE–1595 CE) Timeline of the Middle Ages (410 CE – 1499) Chronology of colonialism (821–2010) Chronology of the colonization of North America (986–1791) Abolition of slavery timeline (1102 CE–present) Timeline of European exploration (1418 – present) Timeline of European imperialism ...
This is a chronology and timeline of the European colonization of the Americas, with founding dates of selected European settlements. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Pre–Columbus
History portal; Art of Europe; Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
The Silk Road and spice trade routes which the Ottoman Empire later expanded its use of in 1453 and onwards, spurring European exploration to find alternative sea routes Marco Polo's travels (1271–1295) A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages. [40]
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973), very detailed outline; 6th edition ed. by Peter Stearns (2001) has more detail on Third World; McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 (1984) Mowat, R. B. A History of European Diplomacy 1815–1914 (1922), basic introduction