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August 14 – Chen Yanxiang and his crew of 121 people, sailing to Korea for trading, come under attack by 15 ships of Japanese pirates off of the coast of Gunsan. After a two day battle, 80 of the crew are dead and the ship is looted, but remains with Chen. The 40 survivors are able to reach the Korean shore. [80]
1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola.; 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year.
Age of Discovery (or Exploration) (Europe, c. 1400 – 1770) Polish Golden Age (Poland, 1507–1572) Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730) Tudor period (England, 1485 ...
[citation needed] The native people of North America did not die out nearly as rapidly nor as greatly as those in Central and South America due in part to their exclusion from British society. The indigenous people continued to be stripped of their native lands and were pushed further out west. [ 40 ]
The imperial project of the Luxembourgh halted under Charles's son Wenceslaus (reigned 1378–1419 as King of Bohemia, 1376–1400 as King of the Romans), who also faced opposition from 150 local baronial families.
c. 1400 – Beginning of the European Age of Discovery. c. 1450: Norse colony in Greenland dies out [citation needed]. 1473 – João Vaz Corte-Real perhaps reaches Newfoundland; writes about the "Land of Cod fish" in his journal. 1479 - Treaty of Toledo ends the War of the Castilian Succession. Portugal won the exclusive right of navigating ...
Development of the woodcut for printing between 1400–1450. Movable type first used by King Taejong of Joseon — 1403 . (Movable type, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, was invented in China by Bi Sheng between 1041 and 1048.)